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From: decot@cwruecmp.UUCP (Dave Decot)
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Subject: Re: Replacement for he/she
Message-ID: <985@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 21:49:39 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 11 21:49:39 1984
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Organization: CWRU Computer Engr. Cleveland, Ohio
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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."
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