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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (6380)	1/19/1998 5:54:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (3) of 71178

I'll horn in here with an unsolicited defense. There's no graceful way in English to provide a generic pronoun, one without specified gender. I prefer to see "he" or "him" used where no other info is available. Strictly imho, to use the now-popular "he/she" or worse, "he or she" strikes me as awkward and inelegant. If we have reason to believe that the likely gender is feminine, an unadorned "she" is best. You've probably guessed that I don't hold with the contortions some of our more...progressive... experts on language espouse.

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