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- From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
- Subject: Re: Shaking people up with "she"? (was Re: Sexist language)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.045939.26935@Princeton.EDU>
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- Organization: Princeton University
- References: <1992Dec15.021930.7866@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec15.182137.18930@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Dec20.125836.10920@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 04:59:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.125836.10920@vax.oxford.ac.uk> wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- >In article <1992Dec15.182137.18930@news.eng.convex.com>, tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
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- >> We do. Damnit. It's "they". Yup, I'm going to waste netbandwidth
- >> again and rererepost the best write-up I have on the topic.
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- >[Various quotes omitted which have almost convinced me]
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- >But are we still allowed to profess ourselves *unhappy* with the use of the
- >singular they?
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- Sure, but it's about as meaningful as expressions of unhappiness with
- the Treaty of Westphalia or the Krebs cycle or the Central Limit Theorem.
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- Roger
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