Illinois bans male pronoun

[Barbara Need]

At 13:34 -0500 04/1/07, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>What's wrong with saying 'teaching good writing"?

Perhaps because that is different? I write well (i.e., my prose is
clear, etc.), but my penmanship is sometimes poor (i.e., there are
times even I can't read my handwriting).

Barbara

>At 1/4/2007 10:36 AM, you wrote:
>>penpersonship? No.  Should be 'penperoffspringship.'
>>
>>Fritz
>>>>>  george.thompson at NYU.EDU 1/4/2007 7:29 AM >>>
>>I'm sure we all wish that our schools would go back to teaching good
>>penpersonship.

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