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    3 hours ago

    The best English literature doesn’t follow the basis of most convenient or shortest. Sometimes there are other reasons to choose a word of phrase.

    The plot of Romeo and Juliet could be rewritten in a paragraph but probably wouldn’t have had the same impact.

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      True, but this isn’t prose or high literature. What reason do you suggest why “his or her” would be preferable to “their” in this context?

      The prescriptivist “It’s grammatically incorrect” argument doesn’t hold much water when it has been used since middle English.

      In a poem, I can see the thought:
      “I tried to fit the cadence of this clause
      Within the measure of this poem’s form
      Which has in past and present be the norm
      By which this poem, too, seeks to adhere.
      This is my authorial choice’s cause
      for my decision not to use a “their”.” But if to find an alternate way to word
      Your writing’s pronouns strikes you as absurd
      I nonetheless opine that you still ought
      To make the token effort to include
      With “their” all people by the same respect
      That you for yourself would from them expect.
      Refusing this, I feel, would be quite rude.