Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Athel Cornish-Bowden Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Kate Swift died (7-5-2011) Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 17:18:45 +0200 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net v7Gqc6F0qON+7Xq6+I2F3wo5CfK5DnVOzbzyqEOb1ycmGNgy9h Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ydxz5QGmR51eYOAnu1fahZWjG4k= sha256:EWR0H3zHohhqO5jA2ODBpB8jtpBACyoDMw/tKzkLCGo= User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Bytes: 1822 On 2024-05-10 13:51:17 +0000, Christian Weisgerber said: > On 2024-05-10, Adam Funk wrote: > >> This quote from the second book is funny: >> >> "Knowing that he and his can be gender neutral, I shall no longer >> feel there is an odd image filtering through something like: 'The >> average American needs the small routines of getting ready for >> work. As he shaves or blow-dries his hair or pulls on his panty >> hose, he is easing himself by small stages into the demands of the >> day.'...How liberating common sense can be."[5] > > Merriam Webster's Dictionary of English Usage quotes one Albert > Bleumenthal from the New York State Assembly: > > ... everyone will be able to decide for himself whether or not > to have an abortion. Apart frm "herself", which is probably what I would say, the word Mr Blumenthal was avoiding was probably "themself". -- Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly in England until 1987.