On 29/03/2020 05:20, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 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".
>
And can I suggest we talk about this sort of shit somewhere else?

---druck

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