nondeterministic - On Language: All-Purpose Pronoun

On Language: All-Purpose Pronoun

By PATRICIA T. O'CONNER and STEWART KELLERMAN
July 26, 2009

What can you say in 140 characters? On Twitter, that's your limit per tweet. The Twitterati consider this the last word in writing lite, but they've devoted quite a few tweets to a venerable linguistic quest that has long thwarted old-media types: the search for an all-purpose pronoun that's masculine or feminine, singular or plural. Scores of