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- From: djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Shaking people up with "she"? (was Re: Sexist language)
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 23:35:38 GMT
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- In article <BzDw15.MnD@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
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- # Imagine there are no countries.
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- Imagine there *were* no countries. Since countries exist, a
- counterfactual is required.
-
- # It isn't hard to do.
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- Difficult, not hard. Metals are hard; imagination is difficult.
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- # Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too.
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- Nothing for which to kill or die, if you please. And no religion
- *either*. No native speaker would ever say "no religion too".
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- # Imagine all the people living life in peace.
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- What else do you live but a life? I'm sure we can get by with "living
- in peace".
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- # You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
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- Hmmm. Even complete incompetents occasionally get something right.
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- # I hope that some day you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
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- Join us? Are we getting married? Why not avoid the ambiguity by
- saying join *with* us? And how can a singular noun be *as* one?
-
- # - John Lennon.
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- Where is this Lennon fellow from? Certainly not England!
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- David Johns
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