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- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:21:28 EST
- From: Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <92356.182129SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: soc.bi,soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
- References: <BzKq8n.3wL@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- <BzKsHp.2sH@unix.amherst.edu> <BzMADt.1n7u@austin.ibm.com>
- <1992Dec21.175438.20068@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Dec21.175438.20068@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com
- (ryerson.schwark) says:
- >
- >In article <BzMADt.1n7u@austin.ibm.com> alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R.
- >Weiss) writes:
- >>
- >>And you appear naive to assume that an unattractive, coerced
- >>strategy of straightening out the English language will EVER
- >>succeed. Besides, AGAIN you misrepresented my position - I was
- >>using "hip" as a suggestion - it really doesn't MATTER how
- >>gender-neutral language is made pallatable. I could care less
- >>about the means, but care a great deal about the goal. You
- >>may choose to read every third word in this, too - that is
- >>your right - but it is the truth.
- >
- >Really? Do you think that people stopped using the word 'nigger' because
- >they were carefully marketed to? I don't think so.
- >
- >Ry
- >ry@usl.com
-
- People have stopped using the word 'nigger'? Stopped printing it,
- mostly, and not in prime time, but ....
-
- I suspect the thing that's going to get the gender neutral pronouns
- in place for part of the population is that all the serious scholarly
- english style guides are now gender neutral or getting there. This
- will get all the primary school teachers, who will get the kids who
- end up literate. (The kids who don't end up literate have a much
- larger problem than their language use!)
-
- Just think - the grade 8 grammar teacher is *really* on your side. :]
-
- Graydon
-