Re: Apical pronoun in english?

John C:
> Tim May scripsit:
>
> > Alternatives would be to use he, she, or it consistently (Ursula Le
> > Guin calls the Gethenians "he" in _The Left Hand of Darkness_ but
> > "she" in the short story "Winter's King") or to use one of the many
> > sets of epicene pronouns already created.
>
> In her unpublished (I think) screenplay for LHD, she uses "a"
> (possessive "en") as the epicene pronoun.  There's a long list at
> http://www2.english.uiuc.edu/baron/essays/epicene.htm which even
> mentions me!
And in so doing, mentions not only you but a particularly
scintillating exemplum of cowaniscient erudition. There's
not many a philologist who'd have had that datum in their
knowledge.

--And.