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Re: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?
Subject:Re: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods? From:Beth Westbrook <dew -at- austin -dot- rr -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:07:12 -0600
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 10:38:03 -0800, dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com wrote:
>> "he" is standard language usage for someone of unknown gender.
>
>But that audience is so small! I'm sure most of the people I write for are of obvious gender. :)
Perhaps in your world they are, but they're not always obvious in
mine.
-Beth Westbrook
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