On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 00:57:34 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 20:14:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
Contrary to technical official definition, in REAL WORLD
usage, "he" is BOTH a masuline AND a gender-neutral pronoun. A
few occasional nutbags who deliberately ignore the
"gender-neutral" possibility in order to promote their "you
are all sexists" agenda is NO excuse for bowing to thier
pressure.
Personally I don't perceive he as ever being gender neutral(us
native speaker). If I am trying to be gender neutral then I
will use "they" or "that person" or "one". If some one did try
to use he in a gender neutral context then I think it would
sound weird to me.
'he' has been a gender neutral pronoun for centuries, and as far
as I'm aware this has its roots in latin using 'man'(vir?) as a
gender neutral pronoun.
