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To: ServesURight

Nothing like confusing pronouns with reality.


6 posted on 06/23/2004 9:17:09 AM PDT by dirtboy (John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)
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To: dirtboy

I guess the moron who wrote this never heard of male pronouns taking the place of both genders in formal, old-fashioned writing.

Hell, my teacher in HS several years ago still taught us to use male pronouns when referring to anybody instead of a single person (like if I said, "He will understand in reading this book..." instead of "He or she will..." or "The reader will...").


139 posted on 06/25/2004 8:32:20 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" -- Abraham Lincoln)
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