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- From: jfb@draco.macsch.com (John Baskette)
- Subject: Announcing a new gender neutral pronoun!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.202509.12290@draco.macsch.com>
- Sender: jfb@draco.macsch.com (John Baskette)
- Organization: MacNeal-Schwendler Corp.
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 20:25:09 GMT
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- At last a viable solution has been found to reform the gratuitous
- chauvinist sexism speciism and objectism implicit in English pronoun usage!
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- Announcing the universal pronoun that is gender neutral and can be used
- to reference an indefinitely specified person or thing!
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- This new pronoun is derived from pre-existing pronouns used of both genders
- and entities of non-gender! This pronoun also fits normal English usage!
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- The proposal: Combine the English pronouns She, He, and It into one
- inclusive politically correct universal pronoun as follows:
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- She
- he
- it..... S/h/it!
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- So instead of "He went to the market"
- or "She went to the market". S/h/it would say,
- "S/h/it went to the market!"
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- This pronoun may also be used with the definite article and as objects of
- sentences. For example:
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- "How are all the little boys and girls?" could be rendered:
- "How are all the little s/h/its?"
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- This pronoun could also be used in place of the terms man or woman or
- wonmyn as in the following example:
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- "Rush is a big man!" could be rendered:
- "Rush is a big S/h/it!"
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- The possibilities are endless!
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