Dave Eddy wrote:
refer to him when he's in his female form? Change to "she"? You can't
*not* use personal pronounds in English; the language doesn't allow
This is not *exactly* true. During the 80's, two new words were coined
to gender-neutral and gramatically correct, but simply never caught on.
Probably condensed from the popular (but gramatically incorrect) usage
of using "they" to refer to a person of unspecified gender, the words
were "te" (pronounced tay, like say) and "ter" (pronounced tear, like a
rip in fabric). (I don't swear those pronounciations are correct, but
they're what the Humanities department at Michigan Tech University was
using. These are the same people who told me that a degree in technical
writing would have the big companies beating a path to my door. Yeha.)
So he/she/te, and his/her/ter.
I know. They sound stupid. <g>
Nightman
*splitting hairs*