Though I must question the reference to "it" - which I believe refers to
what I erroneously spelled "in" and which refers not to the OP but to
the phrase for which OP stands.
The point about "their" being plural is well taken, though it is a
common form of (mis?) speech which replaces the much more awkward phrase
"his or her." (Life, at least in this regard, was so much simpler when
the masculine was assumed, in situations such as this, to be neuter.)
cuxfal56 wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Jeffrey Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:04:17 -0400 J Messeder said:
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>>> I'm not criticizing the OP (which I don't know what that stands
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> for,
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>>> but I've learned in means "operator who had the problem"), because
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> such
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>> "Original Poster", the person who started the thread with their
>> question or comment.
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> <<SNIP>>
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> REALLY? To me
> "the person who"
> must be a he or a she; "it" does not make it nor does THEIR!!!! Clue:
> person is singular.
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> Cux
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whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of
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