[23468] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Toast Song: If a male called a female a man...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Rice)
Sun Jan 19 13:49:05 2003
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 10:49:00 -0800
Reply-To: Jason Rice <moonbug76@yahoo.com>
From: Jason Rice <moonbug76@yahoo.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <005501c2bfd3$e0605710$27fbaf80@famtree>
--- Michael Ryan Gallagher <famtree@UDel.Edu> 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.
They may be incorrect in a case such as this for now,
but it is becoming more acceptable. I, myself, prefer
to use the singular they, especially when told to use
"inclusive language". I have gotten into trouble in
class for doing such a thing though. Hmmm....
> Can you give
> examples of languages that
> use "he" as gender neutral.
From my experiences many languages use he as gender
neutral. This is probably why English does or did or
whatever it is now (Political Correctness has
infultrated our language and is trying to get me to
pay attention to it!)
Then there is Finnish. A wonderful gender neutral
language to begin with; even "he" and "she" is the
same word. Incidentally, Finland was also one of the
first to grant women suffrage. There has been
speculation that the gender neutrality of the language
made it easier to accept. Just something interesting I
came across.
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