[lit-ideas] Re: grades & kleenex
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 19:07:55 +0100
> I
> hope you did
> it on porpoise.
Sure I did!
But I didn't know we knew the teacher's sex.
Judy Evans
jaye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paul Stone
> Sent: 07 May 2004 14:32
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> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: grades & kleenex
>
>
> Judy spoke:
>
> >I'm not denying that they chose a bad solution to the problem (of
> >non-gender-neutral language).
>
> It seems to me that using the non-gender-specific "they" for
> third person
> when you KNOW particularly who you are talking about -- in this case, a
> "she" [not the cat's mother] -- is somewhat irresponsible. I
> hope you did
> it on porpoise.
>
> Paul
>
> ##########
> Paul Stone
> pas@xxxxxxxx
> Kingsville, ON, Canada
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