Re: [issues] Re: Demographics - Reprise

[Kelly Lynn Martin]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:49:54 +0100 (CET), Nils Philippsen 
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>So what would you like? "Its" wouldn't be nice to both genders, I
>suppose.  But inventing a "fourth" gender which means both real
>genders isn't feasible, too? You would confuse us non-native English
>speakers and we'd probably turn to Esperanto instead :-).

Actually, there have been several efforts to invent such pronouns.
The one I'm most familiar with is the Spivakian "e" (used in the Joy
of TeX): e, em, eir, emself.  There are others.  None has caught on.

Kelly

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