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From: datanguay@watmath.waterloo.edu (David Adrien Tanguay)
Subject: Sexy language, was Re: Assumptions about sex
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.110113.4416@watmath.waterloo.edu>
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In article <1990Oct25.145511.13202@mks.com> linda@mks.com (Linda Carson) writes:
>We could use the colloquial "they" exactly the same way we do in
>our day-to-day spoken language:

Ungenderising English does not seem to be too difficult of a task
(in principle -- getting people to use the new language is another matter).
What have people been suggesting for pervasively gendered languages, like,
e.g., French?
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David Tanguay            Software Development Group, University of Waterloo