Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.women Subject: Re: Deific gender question Message-ID: <987@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 13:39:37 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxn.987 Posted: Thu Aug 16 13:39:37 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Aug-84 07:28:15 EDT References: <254@siemens.UUCP> <957@pyuxn.UUCP> <921@pucc-h> <166@cornell.UUCP>, <1250@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <2704@allegra.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 15 > 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. -- AT THE TONE PLEASE LEAVE YOUR NAME AND NET ADDRESS. THANK YOU. Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr