Interesting thought. I also agree with you on the "his or her" thing being cumbersome, and stand by grammar over political correctness.
(One of the reasons I love the French language is it leaves no doubt. There is an extra subject pronoun when you're unsure, and the possessive adjective agrees with the possession, NOT the owner.) J Messeder wrote: > Alli (in the next message in this thread) agrees with you, and I agree > with both -- but it occurs to me to see whether there is an age thing > here. So I'm going to try to remember to take this to work Monday and > see how the kids answer. They're all within a couple years of graduating > college, and all pretty sharp writers, so I'll be interested in how they > would address the problem.
