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To: mkjessup
"using a restraint to ensure that THEY are safe."

That's in the protocol for dealing with more than one psychotic astronaut. The proper pronoun for a single person of indeterminate gender is the first-person singular masculine, and the AP copy desk is a stickler for that one.

20 posted on 02/23/2007 1:44:20 PM PST by ReignOfError (`)
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To: ReignOfError

using a restraint to ensure that THEY are safe."


That is the PC talk that is used in psychiatry when discussing restraining a patient and medicating him or her.


41 posted on 02/23/2007 3:33:32 PM PST by Chickensoup (WE are the media....The New Media.)
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