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Article #315Re: Gender neutral pronouns
From: Yair Friedman
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 10:06
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 10:06
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In article <1992Aug5.194441.6056@alf.uib.no> hlirg@alf.uib.no (Roger Greenwald) writes: > >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. > Are there any languages that have a first person gender? >-- >Roger Greenwald >Greenwald@hf.uib.no (address valid only until 10 August 1992) Yair Friedman. yair@cs.huji.ac.il yair@hujinix.BITNET -- Yair Friedman. yair@cs.huji.ac.il yair@hujinix.BITNET
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!bu.edu!wang!news From: yair@huji.ac.il (Yair Friedman) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Gender neutral pronouns Message-ID: <5263@shum.huji.ac.il> Date: 7 Aug 92 10:06:43 GMT References: <1992Aug4.203501.10085@bnr.ca> <2A7EFE7D.18189@noiro.acs.uci.edu> <1992Aug5.103147.20713@discus.technion.ac.il> <1992Aug5.194441.6056@alf.uib.no> Sender: news@wang.com Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs Lines: 29