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From: ag5@pucc-k (Henry Mensch)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.women
Subject: Re: Gender-specific responses to s/he
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Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 00:34:03 EST
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	I don't know if this gender-non-specific stuff is
worth wrenching our hands (and minds) over ... Many of the
world's languages have this bug  and,
quite frankly, I think it's rather neat..

	And I certainly don't people in net-land referring
to this article as "their" (meaning mine).  It sounds bloody
ridiculous!

	BTW, this sort of stuff is almost as tacky as Ms .
While I do approve of a "courtesy title" for women which 
does *not* indicate marital status, I think that Ms (Miz)
is bottom-of-the-barrel and (if I were a woman) I wouldn't
stand for it.

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