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- From: twosheds@ferris.cray.com (Jay Vollmer)
- Subject: Re: Sexist Pronouns
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.212033.21708@walter.cray.com>
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- References: <1993Jan19.023418.8914@news.media.mit.edu> <freek.727449378@groucho.phil.ruu.nl> <1993Jan21.144844.1@tesla.njit.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 21:20:32 CST
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- In article <1993Jan21.144844.1@tesla.njit.edu> 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
- >non-sexist English without making up words noone understands
- ^^^^^
- You mean like this one? ;-)
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