Re: OT: Latin subject-verb agreement

David Peterson wrote:
>Gary wrote:
><<
>Lately I've heard "they" used a lot as a gender-neutral replacement  for
>"he",
>"she", or the awkward "he/she", or "he or she".
(snip)

I've mentioned before, Marge Piercy's proposed "per" (< person) as a
gender-neutral future-English subsitute (the possessive is pers IIRC) in her
WONDERFUL novel "Woman on [(at?] the Edge of Time"-- though I guess her
readership was so small that it never had a chance.....

>Interested parties (including the remaining prescriptivists) can
>see my short write-up of this phenomenon here:
>
><http://dedalvs.free.fr/guide/search_english.php?word=17>
That's good/amusing..... I'd note that "alright" _does_ have some
acceptance, though perhaps not in the pages of Leading Newspapers.