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English really needs another pronoun for cases like this! Traditionally, if the gender was unknown, the masculine pronoun would be used. In a grammar book from 50 years ago, your examples would most certainly use "his." Today this would still be considered grammatically correct, but...

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...

It's quite common in conversation to use "them" instead of "him or her" if, for example, you don't know if the person at the door is a man or a woman. You don't want to use "it" for a person, and English doesn't have a pronoun for a single person of unknown gender, so people use the plural...

Regarding the many spanish verb conjugations, I must say I truly believe that it's complexity is ultimately what keeps spanish speakers from having such vast vocabulary as english speakers do. A single verb (aside from irregulars, which aren't many) requires knowing only two other words in...