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- From: sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden)
- Subject: Re: A gender neutral pronoun, was Fundamentalist Nightmare
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:16:29 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.134114.16362@psych.toronto.edu> <1992Nov2.132225.11830@newstand.syr.edu> <1992Nov3.024902.3559@wam.umd.edu> <1992Nov4.000910.22942@iitmax.iit.edu> <1dmjecINNp8g@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <BxI7u1.LwE@unx.sas.com>
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- In article <BxI7u1.LwE@unx.sas.com>, saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski) writes:
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- |Finally, the execrable solution of overusing the passive voice can be
- |applied. This way, avoiding mentioning a subject altogether can be
- |achieved. Most will agree that this is the way some of the worst writing
- |is performed.
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- --Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC | sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
- Hellenic poet of the same name. |
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