Sometime around 11/7/05 (at 10:04 -0400) Thomas McGrath III said:
I don't know if he/she/it was the same person who decided that but I
bet he/she/it was actually a he/she/it and not a he/she/it.
Seriously, when doing presentations that are going to be in english
but presented in foreign speaking countries I always am asked to
replace he or she with he/she or him and her with him/her etc. in
all of my presentations.
It would be nice to have a neutral way of identifying the person
with out gender. This would be politically correct now a days. FBOW
(for better or worse)
I find that bending the rules rather than breaking them is the best
solution, here, as in life in general. If the gender is unknown, a
simple "they" will suffice almost all of the time, even when speaking
about an individual. That, and using their name.
I do admit that your problem of translating to other languages is a
bit more difficult.
I remember my mother's reaction to an American 'translation' of one
of her books (this was from the Queen's English, BTW!) which had her
conciously-written uses of "he" and "his" changed to a random mixture
of he/her and his/hers. All in the name of political correctness.
Frankly, *that* sort of attempt to paper over real issues is fairly
insulting to the intelligence of hims and hers alike.
k
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