On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 09:58 PM, Michael Becker wrote:
This may be taking it over the edge, but my female
English teacher in
high school taught me this: The correct grammatical way to refer to
someone of unknown sex as he. When asked if this bothered her, she
said
"no, it is just proper English." While I personally agree with this
philosophy, it is quite evident that some people in the pedia think it
is sexist, and are bothered by it. I will make every effort to address
someone by their true sex, or use their name, but when it come down to
it, I will use the grammar I was taught, since there will never be a
consensus on this, since any method is non-NPOV.
Well, I suppose there's always this...
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sie_and_hir
I'm not sure that I've seen this in actual use more than twice, though
:-)
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