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From: polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry Polard)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.nlang
Subject: Re: Non-sexist language (historical)
Message-ID: <5327@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 14:14:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 17 14:14:21 1985
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Summary: 

In article <290@wuphys.UUCP> bsc@wuphys.UUCP (Bryan Coughlan) writes:
>Instead, I think a new word is in order.  The problem is,
>new words have a hard time getting accepted for
>normal use.  I think the reason behind that is
>the lack of planning when inventing the word.
Does anyone have information on the success of attempts of 
"conscious" linguistic change?  Obviously such things as brand names
have changed our vocabulary, but I am thinking of linguistic changes whose 
goal is to change attitudes, as described in the article quoted above,
which proposes inventing a new gender-neutral animate pronoun.
-- 
Henry Polard (You bring the flames - I'll bring the marshmallows.)
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