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From: dsn@umcp-cs.UUCP (Dana S. Nau)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: "he or she" - a grammatical problem solved
Message-ID: <177@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 18:16:36 EST
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.177
Posted: Mon Mar 10 18:16:36 1986
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References: <2859@amdahl.UUCP> <830@cylixd.UUCP> <978@h-sc1.UUCP>
Reply-To: dsn@maryland.UUCP (Dana S. Nau)
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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In article <978@h-sc1.UUCP> breuel@h-sc1.UUCP writes:
>... Why don't we simply do away with pretentions that
>grammatical gender has anything to do with the social problems of sex
>discrimination? Or is that equally unrealistic...

I, for one, think that it *does* have something to do with sex discrimination.
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Dana S. Nau,  Comp. Sci. Dept.,  U. of Maryland,  College Park,  MD 20742
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