On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:41:36 -0400 Craig Froehle said: > On 6/1/07, Jeffrey Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:29:00 -0500 Alli said: > > What if I don't know the person is a "he"? > > Doesn't matter. If unknown or known to be a male, use "his." > > Strunk & White know all.
Strunk & White is also quite old. It was old when I was in high school 25 years ago. Some aspects of language do change, and English has pretty much always been fluid. -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol DISCLAIMER: The entire physical universe, including this product, may one day collapse back into an infinitesimally small space. Should another universe subsequently re-emerge, the existence of this product in that universe cannot be guaranteed.
