On 17/05/12 17:23, rjc wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 04:59:40PM BST, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Gary Dale <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 17/05/12 03:48 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >>>> >>>> On 17/05/2012 06:20 πμ, Gary Dale wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I suspect that file recovery is his current priority. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> It's a "she". :-) >>>> >>> "It's"? Shouldn't that be "He's a she"? ;) >> >> These days I use singular they and friends when I don't know. >> >> "I suspect that file recovery is their current priority." > > You meant *plural* of course ;^) > I think he meant what he said. There is a nasty usage developing in English (in the UK, at least) for "their" singular, to denote "he or she". I have resisted it so far.
It would be much better to originate a new word, such as "heshe", or "shehe", and "hisher", instead of overloading an existing plural. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:[email protected] Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
