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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!emory!ogicse!reed!todd
  2. From: todd@reed.edu (Todd Ellner)
  3. Newsgroups: soc.motss
  4. Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
  5. Summary: Genderless language worthless
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec25.173713.24226@reed.edu>
  7. Date: 25 Dec 92 17:37:13 GMT
  8. Article-I.D.: reed.1992Dec25.173713.24226
  9. References: <BzKq8n.3wL@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <92356.182129SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <18218@autodesk.COM>
  10. Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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  13. There are already plenty of genderless languages, Swahili and Farsi
  14. come to mind. The absence of gendered pronouns for hundreds of years
  15. has not made Persian or East African men into paragons egalitarian
  16. virtue.
  17. -- 
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  19. Todd Ellner  todd@reed.edu 
  20. "What has the study of biology taught you about the Creator Dr. Haldane?"
  21. JBS Haldane:"I'm not sure, but He seems to be inordinately fond of beetles."
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