The painful contortions of PC Correct feminists are sooo interesting...not!
Chuck
"It's just over the next dune, I swear to God!" -- Moses
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 11:58:49 EDT, [email protected] wrote:
>In a message dated 09/08/2001 9:09:58 Central Daylight Time,
>[email protected] writes:
>
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> Actually, according to some grammar experts (I believe William Safire and
> some others, though I could be wrong about who THEY are), the presumed
> "politically correct" generic pronoun "their" and "theirs" was used some 200
> years ago, and is today considered grammatically correct.
>
> Even if it wasn't, I'd still use it. "HE" DOESN'T APPLY TO WOMEN.
>
> Nina Colloid >>
>I have never seen that usage in literature. If so, why was it changed? It's
>an axiom of proper English that the subject agree with the verb. "Their own
>self" violates good grammar. His/her works, sounds literate and violates no
>rule of proper English.
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