A common choice, at least in Canada, is to use the plural pro-noun, since, in English, it in gender neutral.
It's difficult to get used to, at first. - -teD - Original Message From: Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 10:46 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: STCK question John McKown wrote: >> I've seen s/he used to cover both genders. >Well, being computer professionals, despite not being of the UNIX variety, >perhaps we use use the regular expression: s?he >(the ? means "repeat 0 or 1 times" aka "optional"). Unless we post in the >ISPF forum whereupon it becomes r's?sh' to match PDF EDIT's specification of a >regular expression. So, you and me are zero or "optional", because we're males? ;-) Should r's?sh' not be r's?she'? Or am I missing something optional? >Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be. Hehehe, resist, I will not, your good signature lines. ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
