Seconded. Although I have stopped used the word "irritating" entirely because most Germans do not understand it. The German world "irritierend" means "confusing", so many Germans speaking English say they are irritated when they are confused. The confusion gets to be irritating after a while. Or is it the other way around?

Carlos Alos-Ferrer
Professor of Economics, University of Cologne
http://www.decisions.uni-koeln.de


Am 04-Sep-2014 22:37:44 +0200 schrieb editor@freelancetraveller.com:

On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:14:08 -0500, Mike Looney <mlooney@megawatts.com>
wrote:

>Semi random question about pronouns. I'm in the process of doing a
>weapon and vehicle book. For Reasons, I don't want to use the English
>generic "he/him/his".

Following up on my previous, Kurt and Carlos express my feelings a lot
better than I did, though rather than Kurt's "aggravating", I'd use
"irritating".

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