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From: mpb@iclbra.UUCP (Paul Blackburn)
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Subject: Re: Pronouns devoid of gender connotations
Message-ID: <172@iclbra.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 12:24:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 12:24:22 1985
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> In article <431@mtxinu.UUCP> ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) writes:
> >>>7)  Use "she" and "he" alternately or randomly from one work to
> >>>    another, or from one passage to another.
> >
> >Even this doesn't always work, however.  An introductory programming
> >text written at Berkeley a few years ago used the pronouns interchangably,
> >and randomly assigned them with a program.  Somehow, whenever a bad
> >example was given - deliberately to illustrate a point - the pronoun
> >came out "she", or so it seemed.

I use the construct "(s)he" but how does one write his/her? "h(is|er)"?
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