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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. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@...> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein