I
heartily disagree with
datajack. I use this
expression whenever I'm
writing and have to use a
third-person subject pronoun where the
gender of the
subject is
unknown or
irrelevant or, most often,
both. It works well in writing because you don't have to
read it
aloud and it even if you do have the
reading style where you
pronounce words to yourself, it's still okay since it's
pronouncable. It avoids
sexism, using
plurals for
singulars, and other
problems.
Ideath, that's a great idea, but engineering a language like that seldom works - ask the French.