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From: bfu@ifi.uio.no (Thomas Gramstad)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Return of the killer pronouns
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Date: 28 Jan 91 17:39:46 GMT
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In my native language there are three different "kinds" or patterns
of nouns, 'masculinum', 'femininum' and 'neutrum'.  The word for
'human' is neutrum, which means that a direct translation would
give: human -- it -- its -- itself etc.  Would this work in English,
or is 'it' too associated with 'things'?

Thomas Gramstad