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<sn1pr0101mb15203f9534e7496dce78c073ce...@sn1pr0101mb1520.prod.exchangelabs.com>,
on 06/12/2015
at 05:31 PM, J O Skip Robinson <jo.skip.robin...@sce.com> said:
>I have no problem with 'they/them' as genderless generic pronouns.
That's good, because the usage goes back hundreds of years. OTOH, I
cringe when I hear "media is" or, worse, "medias are".
>But failure of number agreement is linguistic cacophony.
Don't read any Hebrew religous books in the original; you'll get hit
in the face with what you call cacophony.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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