The nature of wizards

[David Messer]

In article <270B296A.17D3 at tct.uucp> chip at tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
 >[ Followups to comp.unix.misc ]
 >
 >According to russotto at eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto):
 >>In article <270897A8.6F6C at tct.uucp> chip at tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
 >>>A true wizard is not only well-informed and experienced.  She is also
 >>>gracious and generous.  She patiently answers questions that lesser
 >>>beings might consider to be too "simple" or even "stupid" to bother
 >>>with.
 >
 >>Why do you use 'she'?
 >
 >A better question is, "Why not?"

To which the answer is:  "To avoid confusing the reader by
using a gender-specific pronoun where proper English usage is
to use a gender-unspecified pronoun, namely 'he.'"

This is a a good example of the damage caused by trying to
change the language to suit a political adgenda -- here we
are totally sidetracked from the point you made about
wizards.
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