On 03/31/2013 07:58 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote:
On 30.03.2013 at 16:46 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote:
I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically
correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody.
"When the user presses a key on their keyboard..."
Or don't use a pronoun at all:
"When the user presses a key on the keyboard..."
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay
Actually, it is grammatically correct, at least according to webster
people
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2359037269558
I'm just in the middle of reading Mencken's "The American Language" for
the 3rd time.
robert
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