On 2020-03-29, Rob Morley wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:07:36 -0400
> Lew Pitcher wrote:
>
>> Prior to that reply, I saw no sign that Bud Spencer preferred one
>> self- referential pronoun over another. How about we, where-ever
>> possible, just use proper nouns instead of guessing about (or railing
>> against) the (improper?) use of pronouns, gender-neutral or not?
>
> That was going to be my suggested solution - instead of he/she/it use
> "that person" or similar if no better noun can be deduced from the
> available information. Although I may have occasionally used "s/he".
Someone once suggested "s/h/it".
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