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David Chinell wrote:
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The best overall
> solution to this issue would be to vanish the female pronouns. This would
> force the male pronouns to become non-genderal.
Umm, David, did your mother nurse you at his breast while his uterus was
expelling his placenta? When you were dreaming up your 50% solution,
were you sipping on a 60% solution, perhaps?
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> This saves us having to create a totally new set of pronouns, and renders
> acceptable the huge body of printed material already in existence.
