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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:Peter Harkins <ph-tw -at- malaprop -dot- org> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 4 Mar 2003 23:07:52 -0800
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:09:24PM -0800, Anita Legsdin wrote:
> I'm surprised that no one has yet brought up "one". At one time, one
> could find many uses for that word. If one looks back in history, as
> long as one is talking about going back to 15th century English, one
> could bring it back, couldn't one? Other languages have gender-neutral
> words, which English seems to have dropped.
I find it very handy to use in online discussions, where poor rhetors or the
loss of context caused by quote trimming can give the appearance of ad
hominem attacks. In many places the signal-to-noise ratio is pretty poor, so
I'll do a little to help out.
I'd also just really rather not deal with most of the bickering that online
discussions can become, so I'm willing to appear a little staid to avoid it.
And, hey, I like it and would be happy if it became popular again.
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