"Jeremy \"UncleHoot\" Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecmo> wrote:
> As a result, most of us still refuse to do that, and to avoid saying "they" 
> when it's not grammatically correct, we might say something like "he/she" 
> or, in computer manuals, "the user".

  Whenever I see expressions like "he/she", "he or she", etc. it always
looks like a politically correct hypercorrectism which breaks the fluency
of the sentence and makes it sound artificial and awkward. It can become
really annoying if the pronoun appears many times in a sentence.

  "They" just is not much more helpful in most sentences because it breaks
the singular/plural congruency of the sentence.

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                                                          - Warp

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