From: Gary Wiltshire 

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:45:02 -0400, Mike '/m'  wrote:

>On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:29:18 -0700, Alan Cairns 
>wrote:
>
>>And we
>>could do with a neutral 3rd person singular pronoun.
>
>
>English has one, it just happens to be the same word as the masculine 3rd
>person singular pronoun.
>
>German also has similar overlaps.  For example, the masculine subjective
>pronoun "der" is the same word as the feminine dative pronoun.
>
>Why everyone has their shorts all a-twist just because the neutral
>pronoun is the same word as the masculine pronoun, yielding horrible
>constructs such as 's/he', is beyond me.
>
> /m
>
An increasing trend is to use the third person plural:  A person must have
their own tools.

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