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it vs. he
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Tony M
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Sven Petersson
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Сергей Лузан
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Note added at 1 hr (2008-12-25 09:27:05 GMT)
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You can equally well use the possessive pronoun 'their'; the greatest difficulty arises if you need to use 'themselves', which begins to sound silly in the singular; there is a tendency to say 'themself' when using it in the singular, but I think this leads to some eqaully outlandish expressions (apart from being patently illogical)!
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Paula Vaz-Carreiro
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Thanks, Paula! Season's Greetings to you!
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Phong Le
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Thanks, Phong Le!
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Noni Gilbert Riley
: Quite. And I believe this will become more and more common. Agree with your further comment on Sven's - a combo of your solutions should work.
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Thanks, Noni!
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Russian Federation
Always welcome! :)
Native in: Russian
Works in: German to Russian, English to Russian, Spanish to Russian, and 7 more.
he
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Alexandra Taggart
: It verses (against) him
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Thank you for your remark, Alexondra! :) Merry X-mas! :)
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Tony M
: 'it' cannot be used under any circumstances. A gender-neutral term would be preferred, but various sources do accept 'he' in a context of contracts
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Thank you, Tony! :) Read your very interesting answer. In a context of contracts they use "he" predominanly. Merry X-mas! :)
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Polangmar
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Thank you, Polangmar! :) Merry X-mas! :)
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Tina Vonhof (X)
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Thank you, Tina! :) Merry X-mas! :)
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Native in: Swedish , English
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the Seller, the Buyer
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Clarification, your own example:
'the Seller shall notify the Buyer of the Seller's decision'
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Gary D
: agree.. gender neutral, but you may need to go further, depending on the depth of the legal contract (simplistic nature), Property owner and property aquirer
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Thank you very much!
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Demi Ebrite
56 mins
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THank you very much!
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Paula Vaz-Carreiro
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Thank you very much!
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Tony M
: Agree with the g/n principle, but there really are times when this simply isn't a viable solution. / Your own clarification is a glaring example: repeating 'the Seller' like that makes it sound as if it's a DIFFFERENT 'Seller'
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Show me an example!
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Carmen Schultz
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Thank you very much!
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Noni Gilbert Riley
: Yes, with Tony's solution for where this really won't work.
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It always works. There is a sound reason for the 'hereinafter' sentence you'll find in the beginning of all British contracts!
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