On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 05:33:45PM BST, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 17/05/12 17:23, rjc wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 04:59:40PM BST, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Gary Dale <garyd...@rogers.com> wrote: > >>> On 17/05/12 03:48 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On 17/05/2012 06:20 πμ, Gary Dale wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> I suspect that file recovery is his current priority. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> It's a "she". :-) > >>>> > >>> "It's"? Shouldn't that be "He's a she"? ;) > >> > >> These days I use singular they and friends when I don't know. > >> > >> "I suspect that file recovery is their current priority." > > > > You meant *plural* of course ;^) > > > I think he meant what he said. There is a nasty usage developing in > English (in the UK, at least) for "their" singular, to denote "he or > she". I have resisted it so far.
I know what he meant, hence the ";^)" > It would be much better to originate a new word, such as "heshe", or > "shehe", and "hisher", instead of overloading an existing plural. Personally it doesn't bother me as much as illeism. -- rjc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120517171433.ga24...@linuxstuff.pl
