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>In article <2214@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>>In article <8708200011.AA09857@cogsci.berkeley.edu> bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>>>~~ Some linguist should come up with a neuter personal pronoun and eliminate
>>>this sexist "he" or "she" stuff from modern literature.
>>possessive case, with the vowel sound a little shorter and less structured
>>Actually, one pretty good attempt I've seen uses "ser", which sounds like a
>Kent, the man from xanth.

NO NO A MILLION TIMES NO!!!!! Linguists DO NOT DICTATE LANGUAGE!!!! NO ONE
HAS EVER EVER EVER SUGGESTED SUCH A "FIX" FOR ANY HUMAN LANGUAGE AND HAD IT
STICK (except in France).

THIS IS JUST INCREDIBLY BOGUS.  You are absolutely confused on the role of
people in language: No doubt you read William Safire.  Language is invented,
changed, and updated by the PEOPLE, not the Academicians. 

As an example:  There was a non-sexist pronoun recommended a while back, but
it just 'never caught on'; it was 'thon' (really!);  Want to know when this
awesomely farsighted and incredibly desirable idea (:-) was put forth?  IN
THE LATE 1800's!!!  IT WAS NEVER HEARD OF AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read "Word Play" by Peter Farb, a very fun to read book on linguistics by
a real expert who can speak my language, and probably yours.  It'll straighten
out this fallacy and a million others (at least :-) that you may have,  without
even knowing it.