From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!bernie Newsgroups: net.women Title: Re: Genderless Personal Prounouns Article-I.D.: watarts.1795 Posted: Thu Apr 28 10:27:25 1983 Received: Thu Apr 28 23:59:38 1983 Reply-To: bernie@watarts.uucp (Bernie Roehl) References: ut-ngp.239 I agree, it's better to use 'they' and 'theirs' than to invent clumsy new words (like 'te' and 'per') that no is likely to use anyway. The language is already drifting towards use of 'they' in a singular neuter sense, so we may as well take advantage of it. (It's a little like overloading of operators, for any CS types out there). --Bernie Roehl ...decvax!watmath!watarts!bernie