Statement of dogma

[prog]

I've actually been doing it for a while, now, but I'm going to go ahead and state it for the record:

Henceforth I will use the pronoun they (them, their) when I wish to refer to a person in the singular without specifying their gender. ← See? I just did it. That wasn't too awful, right?

Ten years ago I hated this usage. Now? It's like a warm bath.

Comments

Re: Funny, I've gone the other way

[dougo.livejournal.com]

In your second example, "drivers" does not agree with "his". (Plus there's an extraneous "who".)

Or were you being sarcastic?