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OP Tue Mar 22 16:22:05 2011 No.1648698 [Reply] [Original]

I am writing a piece that involves an anonymous interview and I need the person to remain non-gender specific. I have reached a problem, I need to say, "Blank, does not support his own opinions..." but cannot make this gender specific, so I need something to replace "His own" with.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 16:27:05 2011 No.1648707 bump

>>	Brownbear !Wfn4kkpLag!!fEGZw8wphGR Tue Mar 22 16:29:05 2011 No.1648709 you do not support your own opinons blank does not support their own opinons

>>	OP Tue Mar 22 16:30:05 2011 No.1648716 >>1648709 I was considering that, but, I cannot use "You" if nothing better comes up, then I will use their

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 16:31:05 2011 No.1648720 Blank holds unsupportable arguments. (Unless the point is that HE can't support his arguments, rather than his arguments are insupportable. Then I don't know an elegant way to put it.) (assignment sure is dumb tho, damn.)

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 16:32:05 2011 No.1648726 >>1648720 *opinions, rather than arguments. sorry

Anonymous Tue Mar 22 16:33:05 2011 No.1648727

I second "their". If you're uncomfortable using it because it offends your grammatical sensibility, just insert a footnote in there that you're using it as a singular pronoun for the greater good.

Also, did you know that the English parliament banned the singular use of "their" mid-nineteenth century? Like they had nothing better to do.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 16:40:05 2011 No.1648746 Blank does not support their own opinions. That's what I automatically think of.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 16:42:05 2011 No.1648750 no op, 'their' sounds and reads shitty, unless blank is a royal personage or something.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 16:45:05 2011 No.1648758 >>1648750 Yet you don't have any other solution...

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 16:46:05 2011 No.1648759 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 22:14:05 2011 No.1649512 File: 15 KB, 300x277, FuckinA.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1648759

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 22:26:05 2011 No.1649532 File: 79 KB, 283x255, yeah.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mvq when I always use "he"

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