Alternating between male and female pronouns to show gender neutrality isn't high class, it's just stupid - and annoying.
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@hbdchick@JayMan471 I don't know why ppl have a problem with "they", English's solution to pronoun ambiguity since before Shakespeare. -
Charles Murray's solution: the author uses the pronoun that applies to that author. It makes the most sense: I'd imagine that few authors (of non-fiction) have an internal narrative w/ inconsistent pronouns. "Her wife smashed his face with its baton." Try figuring THAT out.
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