Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site cwruecmp.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cwruecmp!decot From: decot@cwruecmp.UUCP (Dave Decot) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Replacement for he/she Message-ID: <985@cwruecmp.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 21:49:39 EST Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.985 Posted: Sat Feb 11 21:49:39 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 13-Feb-84 03:31:29 EST References: <74@alberta.UUCP> Organization: CWRU Computer Engr. Cleveland, Ohio Lines: 14 Article A follows: The only apparent purpose for pronouns is to allow brevity of expression. That is, some person P uses a pronoun so that P has a convenient way to refer to a thing whose specification may long. A's author I points out in A that a referential mechanism M exists, and that M is already heavily employed in computer science and in mathematics. The readers R may have noticed I's peculiar habit H of using variable names instead of pronouns in A. H is equal to M. I is Dave Decot "Non-Americans are people, too." decvax!cwruecmp!decot (Decot.Case@rand-relay)