At 03:38 PM 7/16/03 -0400, Erik wrote:
Based on standard english practice, I address
someone who's gender I do
not know, using masculine gender. I assume others
do the same. There is
which can be utiliZed if
you wish to be identified as female. It
doesn't
appear that most women
care though.
Standard English practice is to address
people--whether I know their gender
or not--using the second person singular, which is
ungendered.
What I think you're actually saying is that you
*refer to* people whose gender
you don't know as "he". This has never been entirely
standard, and will annoy
quite a few people at this epoch. Using full names,
"they", and workarounds
like "that person", is probably a better idea.
--
Vicki Rosenzweig
vr(a)redbird.org
http://www.redbird.org
Tactic that some wikipedians don't use AT ALL.
Unfortunately.
I don't like it when someone repeatedly talk about me
saying "he claims this". Imho, this is not neutral.
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