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From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Hear, Hear!
Message-ID: <129@hyper.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 11:51:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 15 11:51:11 1985
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> In article <123@hyper.UUCP> brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust) quotes:
> >"What could be more sexist than altering the conventions of
> >the language on purely sexual considerations?"
> >
> >                      -- Gene Wolfe
> >
> >(I have included this in our FORTUNE file.  Go thou and
> >do likewise.     -- SKZB)
> 
> A good point in many instances, but there are exceptions. 

    ...
> 
> 			Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo
> 
> P.S. By the way, I'm with Gene Wolfe and Steven Brust on playing
> with conventions when you don't have a special point to make in
> the way Delaney makes it.  You can he or she or (s)he your writing
> into incomprehensibility if you aren't careful.

Okay.  I agree.  The use you describe is valid.  I'm not sure that
any lesser writer than Delany could have gotten away with it, but
it is a good point.
			- SKZB