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Avoiding Sexist Language

Penulis : Unknown on Sunday, August 27, 2006 | 7:40 PM

The problem is English's third-person-singular personal pronouns: there's no gender-neutral one, except it.Other languages, like French, have this problem too. But in them nouns (i.e., the names of persons, places, and things) still have gender, too (inherited from Latin). So, gender hasn't such strong sexual connotations in these other languages as it does in English, where only pronouns
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