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- From: eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
- Subject: Re: Sexist Pronouns
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.095603.7556@lin.foa.se>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:56:03 GMT
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- erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:
-
- >>
- >> 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
-
- Imagine the problems we poor people with english as second (or third)
- language have with those words. The first time I saw "hie" I didn't understand
- a thing. It took some time, let me tell you, before I figured out the hie and
- hir business. Here there's no attempt to change swedish to "non-sexist", what
- ever that is. Maybe swedish isn't.
-
- cheers
- --
-
- Erik Svensson
- Research Officer National Defense Research Establishment (FOA)
- Guided Weapons Division Stockholm, Sweden eriks@fenix.lin.foa.se
-
- "The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present"
- -- Hobbes
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