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- From: david.scarlett@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (David Scarlett)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: A gender neutral pron
- Message-ID: <3374.1097.uupcb@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 14:49:00 GMT
- Reply-To: david.scarlett@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (David Scarlett)
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- TO: cant@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (fitzgerald clara n)
- > Newsgroups: alt.sex,alt.censorship,talk.religion.misc,sci.skeptic
- > Subject: Re: A gender neutral pronoun, was Fundamentalist Nightmare
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- > Real prose is tougher than technical writing. Inclusify this:
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- FCN> We saw the shadowy stranger again. His collar was folded tall against
- > cold drizzle, and the brow of his hat was pulled low. We could barely see
- > the glitter of his eyes as he glanced at us, before he and his dog
- > disappeared into the dark mist.
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- Why on earth would you want to "inclusify" this paragraph? There is
- no ambiguity to be resolved as the subject is obviously male. In fact almost
- everyone I know is either male or female so when a specific person is
- referred to, there should be no problem. The example of the engineer given
- a short while ago was easily resolved. Do you have an example in which the sex
- of the speaker is unknown? If so I would welcome the challenge. The whole
- notion of gender specificity is counter-productive. It makes far more sense to
- create new attitudes rather than new words.
- D.S.
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- -- SPEED 1.20 [NR]: Is that Ipsomobile or autokinetikon ?
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