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