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From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.women
Subject: Re: Gender-specific responses to s/he
Message-ID: <641@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 15:40:01 EST
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Summary: 

[ Why do they call it "fixing" your cat, when after you're done, it's broken?]

Personally, I like "thing" and "it" when I'm trying to be gender-neutral.
You know, the mailthing walks down the street, and falls into an ithole...
-- 
"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- 
neither more nor less"  -- Humpty Dumpty, the noted linguist

Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC
1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706
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