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johnsmith1890 wrote: »Quite dreadful. 'Them' is plural. We are talking about a user, singular. The whole thing could, of course, be rephrased thus:
That statement does not prohibit users inviting other users to contact them …
However, that sounds too contrived. I prefer the universal 'he', except where the subject is clearly one with a female slant - dinner ladies, nurses and the like, in which case the universal 'she' is better.
Anyway, we're getting off topic here. Perhaps use of pronouns should be a separate thread.
What is quite dreadful is that you think nurses are universally female in gender.0 -
Rainbowgirl84 wrote: »What is quite dreadful is that you think nurses are universally female in gender.
You're misreading the text. I wrote about subjects with a female slant. That does not mean exclusively female. It simply means a majority female occupation (e.g. nursing), or interest (e.g. reading Mills and Boon novels). The word 'universal' is used here merely to describe the prevalence of the pronoun.0
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