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- From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Sexist Pronouns
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.144844.1@tesla.njit.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:48:44 GMT
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- >
- > The best terms are "hie" (for she/he) and "hir" (for
- > her/him), as I learned from the articles by
- > STella@xanadu.com.
- >
- > When will _those_ pronouns have found their way to a
- > dictionary?
-
- Hopefully never. It's abominations like this that make people refuse to
- take non-sexist language seriously. It is possible to write
- non-sexist English without making up words noone understands or using
- ear-grating phrases like "mail person." Normally the easiest away
- around the difficulty is to use the plural (and non-sexist) pronouns. Check
- out "The HandBook of Non-Sexist Writing" for some sensible approaches that
- don't destroy the English language. I believe one of the authors is Kate
- Millet, but I don't have it in front of me.
-
- --Elliotte
-