Warp a écrit :
> "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.

Not to mention that you still have to choose the order of the pronouns, 
which I'm sure will be interpreted as sexism in a few years time ;-)

-- 
Vincent

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