Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Deific gender question Message-ID: <699@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 21:41:35 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.699 Posted: Wed Aug 15 21:41:35 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 10:31:43 EDT References: <179@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 9 >There is a gender-neutral singular animate third-person pronoun in >English -- "they"... Uh, hello? Last I heard, "they" was plural. I know, I know, if I can understand operator overloading in a programming language, I should be able to understand inventing new meanings for common words in natural language. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.