On 6/1/07, Jeffrey Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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?).
Well, those are both prepositional phrases, not sentences, so I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're asking. But, if you don't _know_ the OP to be a woman, then saying "the OP expressed his opinion" would be entirely correct. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
