Re: OT: Latin subject-verb agreement

Den 13. des. 2007 kl. 22.06 skreiv Gary Shannon:

> 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".
>
> E.g: "When a player is ready, he or she will serve the ball."
> Becomes: "When a player is ready, they will serve the ball."
There's always a lot of ways to redo it without resorting to such
tricks. E.g.:

A player, when ready, will serve the ball or
When ready, a player will serve the ball.
The ball will be served when a player is ready.

And you can imagine various alternatives that are semantically a
little different, but without distorting the message too much.

I do this quite a bit in my translation work.

LEF