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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal,soc.women
Subject: Re: Proposed lawsuit
Keywords: Sexual, gender, discrimination,pronouns,language
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Date: 21 Jul 88 04:52:18 GMT
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In article <23951@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> wlieberm@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (William Lieberman) writes:
>What I would like to know is, does anybody have any information on suggested
>gender neutralizing in those languages where every noun has a gender?

You are confusing language gender (French la vs. le, German der vs. das) and
denotation of sex (English he/she, master/mistress, French monsieur/madame,
Spanish Santa vs. San). The two are not related. Indeed, many nouns that carry
denotation of sex will have the opposite gender.

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