From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!lime!houti!kdh Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: sexless words Article-I.D.: houti.128 Posted: Fri Jul 9 12:59:20 1982 Received: Sun Jul 11 02:33:32 1982 I am given to understand that someone **has** come up with "sex-less" pronouns. A book called "The Liberated Man", by Warren Farrell (published ~1974) proposes a set of non-sexist pronouns based on the letter "t" (as opposed to "h" and "sh"). Thus, "he" or "she" become "te" "his", "hers" "tis" (notice which it was based on) etc..... These have not, obviously, been widely accepted. (The first I heard of them was when I showed the recent flaming/discussion/debate to a collegue (female) (oops...) who was not yet up on netnews.) She (excuse me, "Te") had been exposed to them in a class called "The American Male", at Cornell, in '76. She commented that when she used them they typically were circled as typos until the person reading the paper got around to reading the appendix which explained them..... Kevin "I could care" Hunter houti!kdh