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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.women
Subject: Re: Pronouns devoid of gender connotations
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Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 15:07:32 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  9 15:07:32 1985
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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.

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