User talk:Rambam rashi

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Welcome to the Muggles' Guide! Please don't hesitate to leave me a message on my talk page if you have any questions about the book. -within focus 19:07, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Recent Muggles' Guide edits
I do appreciate your looking over the Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter, but I'm going to ask you please to stop one change that you are making. English does not have a gender-neutral way to refer to a single person in the third person (e.g. his wand, her feelings) which leaves us a problem when referring to all members of a group individually. In cases like that, particularly where the group can be mixed gender (Slytherins, for instance, or the Trio or Quidditch team members), we have used "their" as a best approximation of the usage we need. E.g.: "The Slytherins, meanwhile, are acting as normal, making rude comments about Lupin's patched robes, obviously more impressed by someone's superficial outer appearance than with their inner character and abilities." While I appreciate, and somewhat share, the impulse that has you change this to "his", this does lose the gender-neutrality of the term, and we would prefer to retain the gender-neutral term when possible.

I could similarly comment about your use of "whom", but jarring as it is to one reading colloquial English like the Potter series — in which I believe the word does not appear — it is still grammatically correct, and so I will not protest its inclusion in a work on literature.

Thank you very much for your continuing scrutiny; and feel free to make larger changes if you feel them warranted. Chazz (talk) 08:07, 3 March 2010 (UTC)