Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mtxinu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!intelca!qantel!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.women Subject: Re: Pronouns devoid of gender connotations Message-ID: <431@mtxinu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 15:07:32 EDT Article-I.D.: mtxinu.431 Posted: Tue Jul 9 15:07:32 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 11:28:28 EDT References: <2718@decwrl.UUCP> <498@rtech.UUCP><1609@dciem.UUCP> Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA Lines: 14 Xref: watmath net.nlang:3367 net.women:6358 Summary: >>7) Use "she" and "he" alternately or randomly from one work to >> another, or from one passage to another. Even this doesn't always work, however. An introductory programming text written at Berkeley a few years ago used the pronouns interchangably, and randomly assigned them with a program. Somehow, whenever a bad example was given - deliberately to illustrate a point - the pronoun came out "she", or so it seemed. -- Ed Gould mt Xinu, 2910 Seventh St., Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed +1 415 644 0146 "A man of quality is not threatened by a woman of equality."