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From: learn@igloo.UUCP (william vajk)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal,soc.women
Subject: Re: Proposed lawsuit
Keywords: Sexual, gender, discrimination,pronouns,language
Message-ID: <818@igloo.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 88 03:23:01 GMT
References: <12165@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <6278@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <4910@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
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In article <4910@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>, hbetel@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Heather) writes:
 
 
> In Finnish, (and probably Estonian and Hungarian too), there is never
> a sex distinction, (even between he and she). 

In Hungarian there is no gender or sex distinction in pronoun equivalents.

Objects (nouns) are also genderless and use of the form of _the_ is 
determined by the leading letter of the noun following.

Bill Vajk                                                         learn@igloo