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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.women
Subject: Re: Deific gender question
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Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 13:39:37 EDT
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> English is genderless. [PETER ROSENTHAL]

Nonsense. [ALAN DRISCOLL]

To expound on Alan's statement:

To make the claim that an analysis of axioms by linguists determining what
language should mean and how it should be used is not as important as how
the use of the words of a language in context are perceived.  One might say,
"See, the word he is used to mean he and she, thus its the neutral third
person pronoun", while another might perceive that the use of the word he
clearly implies male and excludes female.
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