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Complaints on Question Definitely Not Trivial

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Answering your trivia question this morning (Oct. 19) was a real challenge. It was a challenge because when asking for the name of the athlete who scored the most points in an NCAA Division I-A season, you omitted limiting it by either sex or sport. In fact, given The Times’ well-deserved reputation for “progressive” grammatical construction, I could not even be certain that the pronoun who referred to a person rather than a team.

Are the editors on strike?

ANDREW E. RUBIN

Santa Monica

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