How about a direct, 2nd person approach like "Your partner's birthday?"
I'm w/ Robert - rephrase and be correct.
Awesome that you have an internal nun, Mark.
;-)
On Jul 21, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Gretchen Anderson wrote:
People always get irritated about nouns becoming verbs and yet we all
"google" things.
Language lives! Evolve! Their! Theirs! ;)
That's how your friends would talk, no?
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Wikipedia is hardly a reliable source for grammar expertise. Don't
make me
send Grammar Girl after you.
"Their" is grammatically incorrect when used to refer to a single
person.
Consider rewriting the sentence all together.
In my books, I consistently interchanged "he" and "she" to encourage the
reader to visualize an actual person without giving favor to either
gender.
-r-
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Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] "His/Her" vs. "Their" in website copy
Although my internal nun is scowling at me, I'd have to agree with
Mike. It's certainly accepted in everyday speech and the language
needs such a term.
I think "youse" would be a harder sell (except in Philly).
Joan Vermette
email: jayeff...@mac.com
primary phone: 617-495-0184
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