On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:35:58 -0400 Craig Froehle said: > > Then please educate me on the proper genderless indication of singular > > ownership in one word or less. > > What person do you know is without a gender? When talking about individual > _people_ (at least in English; I don't want to generalize beyond my > familiarity), one should always specify a gender.
When talking about an individual of unknown gender. Forex, "the OP", or when all you have is a name like "Dana" (is that as in "Dana Delany", a woman, or Dana Carvey, a guy?). -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol Peter's Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord, #208. Members of my Legion of Terror will attend seminars on Sensitivity Training. It's good public relations for them to be kind and courteous to the general population when not actively engaged in sowing chaos and destruction.
