[Corpora-List] Meta-Gender & Meta-Number

[Orion Montoya]

On Dec 15, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Jon Awbrey wrote:
> | Researchers also suggest each author pulls their works
> | from a hypothetical "meta book".  One description of
> | this concept might be a framework for the way an
> | author uses language.  It is from this framework
> | that all their works are ultimately derived.
>
> Apparently, some authors pull their works from a meta*book
> in which the word "their" is a genderless singular pronoun.

Are you seriously peeving on "singular they" on the *Corpora* list, of  
all places?

O.

(Authors like Austen, Scott, Ruskin, and Shakespeare).





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