Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, October 10, 2000, 19:09 |
Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> [I]n my fiction, I have this tendency not to refer
> to the sex or a character until s/he actually appears, and they want to
> know *right away* or it feels uncomfortable.
IIRC, in one of Delaney's later novels, "she" is the default pronoun, and
"he" refers to an individual whose sex you care about, whether male or
female.
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