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   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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)