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From: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
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Subject: Re: Sexist language again!
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Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 23:09:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 23:09:46 1986
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Reply-To: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
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If you think that using he/she yields unreadable prose, you should
see what student journals and associations in Quebec do to look non-
discriminatory: they systematically refer to e.g. "etudiant-e-s", putting
both gender marks on all words which can take them. When they get tired
of doing that, they insist on using both genders. The graduate association
at my department used to be called 
"Association des etudiants et etudiantes en etudes superieures du
 departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle"

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Jean-Francois Lamy
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle, U. de Montreal.

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