"Pre-owned,""near miss," "s/he"

Arnold Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Fri Sep 28 16:22:49 UTC 2001


dInIs sez:
 >'They' has been said they whole dang lives by some us academics. We
 >was beat up purty bad for doin' it while we was in school, but after
 >we got out (and got tenured), hit was OK.

i don't talk funny like dInIs, but "they" does just fine for me.

arnold



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