Article View: sci.lang
Article #277Re: Gender neutral pronouns
From: Craig Cockburn
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 06:47
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 06:47
22 lines
1587 bytes
1587 bytes
In article <1992Aug5.014530.20512@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com>, evan@hpl.hp.com (Evan Kirshenbaum) writes...
>In article <1992Aug4.203501.10085@bnr.ca> Peter Marko <pmarko@bnr.ca> writes:
>>>In article <EUGENE.92Jul25231756@ra.cs.umb.edu> eugene@cs.umb.edu
>>(Eugene
>>>O'Neil) writes:
>>>
>>>I think it's a bummer that English (and most languages) lack a
>>>gender neutral singular pronoun. (Finnish has one!) I don't know
>>
Do you mean a substitute for he/she or a substitute for him/her?
"They" has both singular and plural meanings - I have a large number
of quotes going back to Shakespeare to back this up.
Craig
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Craig Cockburn, Digital Equipment Co. Ltd, Reading, England. Suas
Internet: cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com leis
UUCP:..!decwrl!edieng.enet.dec.com!cockburn a'
Gha\idhlig!
Views here are my own, and are not necessarily those of Digital
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<1992Aug5.065046.28775@rdg.dec.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!rdg.dec.com!edieng.enet.dec.com!cockburnReferences:
<76773@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Aug4.203501.10085@bnr.ca> <1992Aug5.014530.20512@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!rdg.dec.com!edieng.enet.dec.com!cockburn From: cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Gender neutral pronouns Message-ID: <1992Aug5.065046.28775@rdg.dec.com> Date: 5 Aug 92 06:47:50 GMT References: <76773@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Aug4.203501.10085@bnr.ca> <1992Aug5.014530.20512@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News) Organization: Digital Equipment Co. Ltd., Reading, England Lines: 22