acrossthelines wrote:
I'm in now. This will be fuuuun.
Skyline_BNR34 wrote:
Actually no, Schony did the typical sexist way of writing which used to be the grammatically correct way to write things.
It still is the grammatically correct way to write things. "His or her" doesn't flow as well. It's still technically all right, but... In writing, I never, ever use it. It makes things far too choppy and really disrupts prose. It's still preferred to use only "his" for that reason, and honestly, as a woman I have no problem with it whatsoever and do not find it sexist at all. It's something employed in most languages, to simplify and therefore beautify them (and by simplification, I do not mean in vocabulary, but in... clunkiness? because I HATE vocabulary simplification to the extent that I've had
professors ask me to write more simply in that regard lol whatever; this is college, and I
should be writing with those words). I've never once thought of it as sexist, in the same way that I don't find the Romantic languages to be sexist by having masculine and feminine words.
Political correctness is a tad ridiculous at times.
Not now really, if you know the gender you put it, but if you don't, at least in the 2009 MLA format, you need to put both of them, it may not flow right, but it is the true grammatically correct way to do so.
I'm in a class were we have a book about MLA format and it has been updated for 2009.
People still do it of course, but it is the wrong way to write now.
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CriminallyVu1gar wrote:
No need for violence, just tell her she's got a game misconduct and show her the door.
Rud wrote:
As I said in the GDT, the call on Rivet was horseshit. The Bruins player was holding onto Rivet's stick like it was the last fucking raft on the Titanic.