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Re: [APO-L] Toast Song: If a male called a female a man...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fuzzy Logic)
Sun Jan 19 11:07:19 2003
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:09:16 -0500
Reply-To: Fuzzy Logic <fuzzman@m-net.arbornet.org>
From: Fuzzy Logic <fuzzman@m-net.arbornet.org>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <005501c2bfd3$e0605710$27fbaf80@famtree>
Spanish uses the male pronoun (and nouns) for gender neutrality.
pronoun
him: =E9l
her: ella
them (group of males): ellos
them (group of females): ellas
them (mixed group): ellos
noun
Mother: madre
Father: padre
parents: padres
Fuzzy
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Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
Si hoc legere scis, nimium eruditionis habes.
Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur.
Cras amet qui numquam amavit, quique amavit cras plus amet.
Uno itinere non potest perveniri ad tam grande secretum.
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Michael Ryan Gallagher wrote:
> I have seen "she" used. This I think is trying to use it as a gender
> neutral term or if "he" was not used as such, to try to balance usage.
> "They" is incorrect in this case. Can you give examples of languages tha=
t
> use "he" as gender neutral. I do know that in French, "his" and "her" ar=
e
> the same word, which confuses native Anglophones and forces everyone to l=
ook
> for subjects or objects but the word varies with plurality and gender of =
the
> noun being referred to. For example, "ses lunettes" "his (or her)
> eyeglasses, "sa montre" "his (or her) watch."
>
> Michael Gallagher
> Zeta Sigma
> PoliSci & French Studies double major
