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- From: ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca ()
- Subject: Re: A gender neutral pronoun
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:06:31 GMT
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- (Ivan A Derzhanski) writes:
- [...]
- >Besides, singular "they" is frequently being sold side by side with
- >such obvious FemiNewspeak artifacts as "E(m/ir)", "hir" and the like.
- [...]
- >Sometimes marketing matters more than origin. [...]
- >In the same way, the effort that the PC people put
- >into selling singular "they" has the power to make it, for all
- >practical purposes, a PC word.
-
- Isn't it just as mindless to _resist_ singular 'they' because it is PC
- as it is to _accept_ it for the same reason?
-
- Werner
-