Re: He/She/?

Fabian wrote:
> Why stop it? It was normal until the 18th century, when prescriptivists
> decided that a single grammar ought to work for both English and Latin, and
> so tried telling everyone that singular 'they' was wrong. I like to think of
> it as teh original English langauge re-asserting itself.
Here's the way I see it:

3rd Person Pronouns
        Singular   Plural
Masc    He         They
Fem     She        They
Epicene            They
Neuter  It         They

So, it's only natural that the empty "epicene singular" position should
be taken by the current epicene plural, that is, "they" loses number to
become just plain "epicene", with masculine, feminine, and neuter having
no plural counterparts.