By Genders, Pronouns

Point 1: It is not a matter of 'correctness'. They is commonly used for singular of unknown or mixed gender; it is today, however, frowned upon in formal English.Point 2: Your sentence commits a further error of style-- inconsistency of number and/or register. Irrespective (for the moment) of...

You're a bit sexist in your use of language, aren't you? I mean, why on earth would you say 'he' if a person's gender isn't know? I think you continue to foster the archaic belief that doctors are usually men, etc. No, I don't think it's sexist. "he" is a sort of neutral pronoun in some...

The only problem that remains is what to use for a third person neutral gender singular pronoun.Please see Post:260130.

Mister Micawber wrote:Dependent clause, independent clause, separate sentence, separate paragraph-- the pronoun must agree in person, gender and number with the noun to which it refers. This is a simple rule.The only problem that remains is what to use for a third person neutral gender singular...

Dependent clause, independent clause, separate sentence, separate paragraph-- the pronoun must agree in person, gender and number with the noun to which it refers. This is a simple rule.The only problem that remains is what to use for a third person neutral gender singular pronoun.

I feel this is rather the case of the reader's impression being more important, or even the only one counting, at least from this point of view. ----- Gender Neutral Language The use of gender-neutral language may seem unnecessary to some writers, but the consistent use of masculine...

I'm sure there will be people on the lookout for any type of sexist writing who would disagree, but yes. If you use "man" to represent "mankind," then you can use "he" or "his" to continue to refer globally to "people." This usage seems particularly popular when writing out how people interact...

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Whilst agreeing that this topic wandered off into areas not strictly relevant to this forum, I think the following points have come out of it that are relevant to all languages: 1. Writing and speech are different but related phenonema. 2. The form in which a language is written may affect the...

The scientific name for both sexes of our species is the word for only one of them,Homo "man" in Latin;our species also referred to as human (derived from homo) or mankind ,two other words which similarly make the women invisible. The average person is always masculine (as in the man in the...