06-28-2005, 08:50 PM
Occhidiangela,Jun 27 2005, 12:40 PM Wrote:You appear to confuse convention with malign intent, however, English failed to establish a neuter pronoun, unlike the German from which it grew. The result has been a bill payer for comedians ever since. :DI was given to understand that the plural was generally perfectly acceptable when used as the singular neuter.
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(translation from English Department)I thought "they" was the neuter.
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