Originally Posted by
Mach E Avelli
Use of ‘cohort’ was preferable to writing “colleagues of approximately equal experience, age and seniority”. Certainly not intended to emulate PC speak.
Staff who write manuals etc should refuse to write ‘they’ or ‘their’ when the singular he, she, her, his, etc. is easier on the eye of the reader.
Agree. Was just an observation... I know it wasn't intended to be PC. Another one writers of manuals should avoid from what I remember some years ago is 'you should do this' and 'you should do that'... etc. Not that I'm any expert on writing or manuals.