On Dec 8, 2004, at 5:36 PM, Jon Glass wrote:
Very true. Even the New York Times, that bastion of American liberalism, uses the third person masculine pronoun when the gender is non-specific. Anything else is silly and awkward.
I thought a purist drank "his" coffee black. (A purist also uses the proper non-gender specific pronoun in English as well).
Paul
