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- From: djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns)
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- Subject: Re: They (was Re: Shaking people up with "she"? (was Re: Sexist language))
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 11:56:27 GMT
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- In article <12176@scott.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) writes:
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- # Besides, this entertaining and instructive discussion wouldn't be
- # going on now if a netter hadn't said that singular "they" doesn't
- # suit his net.ear, so it ought to be obvious that it makes no sense
- # to deny that such speakers exist.
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- The more interesting question is whether such speakers grew up with
- this distaste or acquired it as adults. This bears heavily on the
- issue of "naturalness".
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- David Johns
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