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    The sane thing to do would be to phase it out.

And replace it with what? You can't phase something out until you have a replacement. (Or you could send everyone back to a 19th century standard of living.)

touche

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Although it's hard to read the following as not calling a figurative-me hostile, for my choice of pronoun.

    Q: They said I was being hostile!
    A: I'm sorry, but you were.

The point of the article, is that it does exist. It is spelled "they". I happen to agree with (this part) of the article.

"perceived hostility" is not "hostility"

The article had me until it basically said using "he" in documentation makes you an asshole. It does not. Period. You can say it's better to use they, and I would even agree with it. But the article did not stop there.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/he

There is a prescriptivist movement that has branded the use of a generic "he" as not generic and therefore sexist. I refuse to feel guilty because someone else has decided that they can declare language to have officially changed, and dictate what I meant by words I used.

Tea. Decaf/herbal as desired.

Not entirely,for music in the US there is compulsory licensing in the law. The orignal copyright owner does not need to agree as long as the covering musician complies with the terms of the compulsory license laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license

Except of course when it's true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfishing#Instances