On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 01:30:08 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
'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.
I am just saying that personally it sounds odd to me to use it that way and I don't hear people use it that way either. In gender neutral contexts where you don't know the gender I almost always say/hear they/their. Maybe he losing its gender neutrality is a recent thing, I don't know. Maybe its just a thing with mid-westerners?
