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  1. Xref: sparky soc.college:5882 alt.usage.english:10143
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!oxuniv!wilcox
  3. From: wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk
  4. Newsgroups: soc.college,alt.usage.english
  5. Subject: Re: Shaking people up with "she"? (was Re: Sexist language)
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec30.134444.11002@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
  7. Date: 30 Dec 92 13:44:44 GMT
  8. References: <1992Dec15.021930.7866@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec15.182137.18930@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Dec20.125836.10920@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <1992Dec29.045939.26935@Princeton.EDU>
  9. Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620
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  12. In article <1992Dec29.045939.26935@Princeton.EDU>, roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig) writes:
  13. > In article <1992Dec20.125836.10920@vax.oxford.ac.uk> wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
  14. >>But are we still allowed to profess ourselves *unhappy* with the use of the
  15. >>singular they?
  16. > 
  17. > Sure, but it's about as meaningful as expressions of unhappiness with
  18. > the Treaty of Westphalia or the Krebs cycle or the Central Limit Theorem.
  19.  
  20. That's all right then. I've never heard of these three wonderful pieces of
  21. knowledge, so I'm certainly unhappy about using them or hearing people use
  22. them. Just like singular they in fact.
  23.  
  24. -- 
  25.  
  26. Stephen Wilcox             |   For Sale: Posts in British Government. Suit
  27. wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk    |   outgoing American. Highest bids accepted.
  28.