In article <47ae4a7c$1@news.povray.org>, aut### [at] runevisioncom 
says...
> 
> Warp wrote:
> > Rune wrote:
> >> Conversely, I
> >> think the sentence below with "he" sounds very weird:
> >
> >> "Readers of women's magazines are not known to be very loyal. If a rea
der
> >> finds that his favourite magazine have gotten pricier than it used to 
be, 
> >> he
> >> will often tend to buy a different one instead."
> >
> >  I can honestly say that the use of "he" did not sound odd or out-of-pl
ace
> > to me at all in that sentence. Maybe it's because I'm so used to using
 
> > "he"
> > as the neutral pronoun.
> 
> Hmm. Okay.
> 
> Rune
> 
Actually, where it bugs me is in customer service. You never use he/she, 
but you use sir, mam, miss, mrs, etc., and its too damn easy when tired 
and/or distracted to mess that up. Something like "ker" which was used 
in C.J. Cherryh's Chanur series as a kind of general honorific would be 
a whole hell of a lot less a) embarassing, b) insulting to people that 
are offended easy, and c) likely to be misused. So, yeah, I would vote 
for some set of gender neutral words too.

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