Re: Gender Neutral Pronouns

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sun Mar 03 2002 - 02:35:12 MST


On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 02:50:40PM +1100, Damien Broderick wrote:
> At 10:43 PM 3/2/02 -0500, Dan wrote:
>
> >But really, how many angels can stand on the head of a pin?:)
>
> 1) as many as want to.
> 2) as many as exist.
> 3) none--no angel can be at rest.
> 4) a transfinite number (which was the point of the original Scholastic
> investigation).
> 5) none--they're all busy screwing in the lightbulb.

8.6766e49: http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/Angels/angels.pdf

As for genderless pronouns, it is interesting to note that angels, which
are sexless according to the scholastics, are usually titled "he".

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