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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Replacement for he/she
Message-ID: <639@ihuxq.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Feb-84 15:44:22 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 12 15:44:22 1984
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>>> >I vote for using 'HE'!!!  That is standard english usage an there is
>>> >no reason to change.

>>> One reason to change should be obvious!  There are a number of 'she'
>>> people around who are NOT included in standard english usage.

If you see any merit to the Sapir-Wharrf hypothesis--that words are
the tools which shape the way you think--then you'll have to admit that
using 'he' as the generic third person must contradict any ideals
of sexual equality.  This situation may not have a good remedy, and
some may believe that it doesn't need one, but that does not invalidate
the problem.

An imaginative non-sexist third-person pronoun was developed by the
Twin Oaks Community in Virginia.  Highly committed to a philosophy of
co-operative living, they use "co".  Declension: "co, cos, co."
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