Sunday, December 20, 2009

HeOrShe

The rhetorical trick of switching the gendered third person singular pronoun in alternate sentences really has caught on, beyond the realms of our new Supreme Court. I have heard it several times this week.

Well it beats the politicians trick of being careful to say always HeOrShe (rhymes with Treorchy) – that is after they got over saying (condescendingly) he – or, of course - she.

And it certainly beats He/She, She/He or (shudder) S/he.

Weird, how one of those binary divisions of the human race is between those who believe that they is* acceptable as a singular pronoun & those in whom any such assertion produces apoplexy

*Or should that be are?


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