home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky soc.college:5871 alt.usage.english:10003
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!tulane!uflorida!elm.circa.ufl.edu!djohns
- From: djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns)
- Newsgroups: soc.college,alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: They (was Re: Shaking people up with "she"? (was Re: Sexist language))
- Message-ID: <38034@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 02:19:19 GMT
- References: <12149@scott.ed.ac.uk> <1992Dec19.181833.22444@cdf.toronto.edu> <BzJtDr.D3I@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu
- Followup-To: soc.college
- Organization: University of Florida, Gainesville
- Lines: 19
- Nntp-Posting-Host: elm.circa.ufl.edu
-
- In article <BzJtDr.D3I@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@banshee.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
-
- # This is either ignorance or an attempt at being dense. Rosemary,
- # MANY persons on the soc.college newsgroups rejected the use of
- # "they" as in "That person isn't late, are they?" and *most* of them
- # are of your age. What *is* your age anyway?
-
- I know you're just kidding when you pretend not to know the difference
- between deixis on the one hand and generic or indefinite references on
- the other. You are just kidding, aren't you Mandar?
-
- I'm sure Rosemary would be perfectly happy with "If one more person
- comes late, we'll have to turn them away", and so would I, which lines
- two whole age cohorts against you.
-
- How many cohorts can *you* line up?
-
- David Johns
-
-