Some thoughts on Pronouns Mike Looney (04 Sep 2014 19:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Kurt Feltenberger (04 Sep 2014 19:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns carlos.web@xxxxxx (04 Sep 2014 19:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Evyn MacDude (04 Sep 2014 21:25 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Mike Looney (04 Sep 2014 20:02 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Kurt Feltenberger (04 Sep 2014 22:36 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Grimmund (05 Sep 2014 01:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Grimmund (04 Sep 2014 20:19 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Kurt Feltenberger (04 Sep 2014 22:39 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns greg caires (04 Sep 2014 19:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Jeffrey Schwartz (04 Sep 2014 20:00 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Mike Looney (04 Sep 2014 20:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Jeffrey Schwartz (04 Sep 2014 19:54 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Freelance Traveller (04 Sep 2014 20:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Andrew Long (04 Sep 2014 20:39 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Freelance Traveller (04 Sep 2014 20:20 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns carlos.web@xxxxxx (04 Sep 2014 20:58 UTC)
Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Andrea Vallance (05 Sep 2014 22:25 UTC)

Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Andrew Long 04 Sep 2014 20:39 UTC
On 4 Sep 2014, at 21:16, Freelance Traveller wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:14:08 -0500, you wrote to Freelance Traveller:
>
>> <snip/>
>
> I do know that in his Honorverse, David Weber tends to use
> unspecified-gender pronouns to match the gender of the viewpoint
> character - that is, male characters will say/think he/him/his, while
> female characters will say/think she/her/hers.

And that works because he does it consistently. Although some of his other grammatical gyrations put my teeth on edge - "loose warhead" instead of "loose cannon", "meter-stick" instead of "yard-stick"

Regards, Andy

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