Klarinet Archive - Posting 000007.txt from 2008/08

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] people are referred to by sex, objects have gender
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:57:00 -0400

One must always remember, that in strictly correct English (I can't speak
for American) that male embraces female, and thus

The pupil at the co-ed school put his clarinet away. You can find out the
gender of the pupil later.

Of course if you were to use "their" then you'd be implying more than one
pupil..... And sharing a clarinet isn't fun!

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Osborn [mailto:feanor33@-----.net]
Sent: 02 August 2008 00:32
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] people are referred to by sex, objects have gender

Yes, for the love of hu-person-ity!

>Speaking of may we once again discuss them, their recordings, common
problems
>and such?

www.osbornmusic.com

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