Do y'all use gender neutral pronouns in documents for work? E.g. "Their" instead of "her or his"

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If your using their in place of "his or her," you're sacrificing good grammar for political correctness.

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No, I assume all the readers of everything I write are males, idiot. What kind of stupid ass question is this?

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@D2: No. http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/192/is-it-correct-to-use-their-instead-of-his-or-her

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Yes. I'm trying to do it in regular conversation as well to get into the habit y'all

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I use human tolerant pronouns. Don't want to trigger any of you pc tards

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Ugh phone. You're* using

I'm all about xer or xe.

Consistency should be what matters in pronoun usage. I don't like the use of "they" where a "she" or "he" usually would go, but it's become acceptable in modern English.

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