To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Does anyone know how to write the English language any more?
"This driver lacks confidence in their driving abilities"
How about "This driver lacks confidence in his driving abilities..."
Other paragraphs are equally egregious.
23 posted on
05/29/2011 12:23:45 PM PDT by
Past Your Eyes
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
To: Past Your Eyes
Does anyone know how to write the English language any more?
"This driver lacks confidence in their driving abilities"
How about "This driver lacks confidence in his driving abilities..."Their is personal possessive; they're might need a gender qualifier at some point but then again I'm just a truck driver.
Wouldn't a genderless driver be an it?
As in "This driver lacks confidence in it's driving abilities..."
smile)
To: Past Your Eyes
it is the “sexless” writing of the PC universities infesting the language.
thankfully the feminist who pushed that nonsense is now dead and her program can die with her.
236 posted on
05/30/2011 10:10:29 AM PDT by
longtermmemmory
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