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Old 16th November 2012, 08:00 AM   #125
truethat
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Originally Posted by theprestige View Post
... Or "he".
No, he is sexist. We've been over this already, stop trying to rehash an old argument.

If you do not know the gender of the person to whom you are speaking or about whom you are speaking then, you use "they" as a pronoun. Not "he."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They
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