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From: polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry Polard)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: "them" vs. "it" vs. "he" vs. "she"
Message-ID: <5282@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-May-85 15:45:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 17 15:45:36 1985
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Reply-To: polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry polard)
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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Summary: 

>I really don't see what you are objecting to in Jeff's article.  There is
>no "it" in french, just "il" or "elle", and even though french people
>know that the chair is not a woman, for all grammatical purposes, the two
>work exactly the same way.   
>Sophie Quigley
>{allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie
Another way of looking at this is that there are TWO words for
"it". 

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