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In article <1992Aug5.103147.20713@discus.technion.ac.il> davidba@carmel.technion.ac.il (David Ben_Ami) writes:
>
>Hebrew is even worse than English in this respect, we differ by gender
>also in the first and second person. (There is no gender-specific first
>person pronoun but there is seperate conjugations).

Please tell us why you think it is so terrible that FIRST person
should have a gender marking? I would assume that in 99.99% of
cases, the SPEAKER is in fact either a male or a female.
And in 99.99% of cases, in person or on the phone, the person
spoking to will know whether the speaker is a male or a female.
In most cases of writing where the author's name is attached,
this will also be the case. Someone who wished for some reason
to hide gender behind initials or a pseudonym or whatever
can also, of course, change the gender marking in the text.

Or do you perhaps think it is terrible that everyone IS
a male or a female?
-- 
Roger Greenwald
Greenwald@hf.uib.no (address valid only until 10 August 1992)