One time on Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:20:57AM +0100 this person named Pigeon wrote: > People who insist on using eg. "chairperson" instead of "chairman" or > "chairwoman", and invent ugly pronouns like "hir" to do duty for both > "him" and "her" instead of using the "they" fudge that everyone else > has been happy with for centuries. :-)
This is one of my least favorite arguments for why the language should *not* be changed. Douglas Hofstadter's "Person Paper on Purity In Language" from _Metamagical Themas_: http://www.double-helix.org/miscellaneous/purity.php Erinn
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
