From: E. Shaun Russell (e_shaun@extropy.org)
Date: Sun Mar 03 2002 - 11:38:49 MST
Eugene wrote:
>On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Andrew Clough wrote:
>
> > Zir / Zirs / Zirself) also seems to be used. Is Ve the (semi?) official
> > extropy mailing list gender neutral pronoun?
>
>Um, why should we need one?
Hey, I've got an idea: why don't we just emulate the French (and other
languages) and just attribute genders to *every*
object! :-/ Yeesh...there have got to be better things to talk about here...
Men and women are obviously different, and I have no problem with referring
to any one person as either she, he or "he or she" or "she or he." Unless
you automatically equate a word with a broad conceptual meaning, I think
we're safe with the language structure as it is.
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