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From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-05 05:56:54
| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of me22
| Sent: 04 November 2005 19:04
| To: boost_at_[hidden]
| Subject: Re: [boost] Gender neutral documentation
| The grammatically correct pronoun for third person singular of
*** unknown gender***
| in English is "he"...
Agree - and I really have got english English as my first language ;-)
|-one common compromise is to add a small notice at the bottom stating
| something along the lines of "The use of a particular gender in this
| document is purely for the author's convenience and should not be
| construed as excluding the other."
I'm bored with this - at least can't we just add something like this
somewhere and get on with much more important matters?
Paul
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