[issues] RE: English dominance, was : Demographics - Reprise

[Janus]

At 12:49 AM 01/14/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>
>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 :-).
>

It could be worse, Nils.  In Canada, we have two official languages, and
the non-English one has gendered and numbered nouns embedded.  For a while,
university feminists were pushing "per" as the gender neutral pronoun.
(That died a natural death.)

Still, I like the Finnish approach to the perceived threat of messy old
English (the ultimate pidgen language, btw) taking over the world.  There
is a move afoot up there to reconver that position for Latin....

Janus
Dum vivimus.....

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