BCS wrote:
Hello Derek,
On Wed, 13 May 2009 01:04:19 +0000 (UTC), BCS wrote:
Ah! One of my favorite qwerks of the English language, how to refer
to a specific single someone of unknown gender without insulting
them: "it"?
I hate it but what can I do?
Use "they". Sure, its wrong but everyone knows what you mean. As in
... "A good coder will write useful comments because *they* care."
Yeah, much as I dislike it, you end up having to. And as someone else
pointed out, "they" is actually correct (why, I don't know).
There is no "why" in linguistics, just "whence".
