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How Good is Your English? / Re: Layman – English editing.
« on: March 19, 2012, 11:05:05 AM »
You could consider doing this, but why would you? Unlike demonstratively stating "his" in a gender un-neutral tense, layman is a commonly-accepted colloquialism and changing it to layperson is not really necessary when it comes to writing. For someone to become offended by the usage of this term is almost a non-issue in my opinion.