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From: myers@uwvax.ARPA (Jeff Myers)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: sexist language -- Chris's brother weighs in
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Date: Sun, 21-Aug-83 09:10:32 EDT
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Paul Torek suggests the use of "she" as the impersonal pronoun.  In at least
one book I know of, an introductory Pascal text called *Oh! Pascal!*, Paul's
idea has been implemented.  The book notes its practice by saying something to
the effect that women have been forced to put up with "he" for several hundred
years, so a decade or two of "she" shouldn't hurt anyone.