Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site hoptoad.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!hoptoad!laura From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: "he or she" - a grammatical problem solved Message-ID: <606@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 23:46:08 EST Article-I.D.: hoptoad.606 Posted: Mon Mar 10 23:46:08 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Mar-86 22:42:45 EST References: <2859@amdahl.UUCP> <830@cylixd.UUCP> <978@h-sc1.UUCP> <177@umcp-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 17 In article <177@umcp-cs.UUCP> dsn@maryland.UUCP (Dana S. Nau) writes: >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. >-- > >Dana S. Nau, Comp. Sci. Dept., U. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 >dsn@maryland seismo!umcp-cs!dsn (301) 454-7932 What would it take to convince you otherwise? -- Laura Creighton ihnp4!hoptoad!laura utzoo!hoptoad!laura sun!hoptoad!laura toad@lll-crg.arpa