Re: Gender

--- Tristan Alexander McLeay froge sionk:
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, David Peterson wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 12/3/01 6:38:30 AM, AJohnson@FOLEYHOAG.COM
> writes:
> >
> > << And unborn children are often called "it", especially by
> >
> > pro-abortionists. >>
> >
> >     I'd always call an unborn child "it" if I didn't know the
> gender.  It's
> > much easier than saying "he or she", and since our pronoun system
> is gender
> > specific, it's the only ideal alternative, if you do want to use
> a pronoun.
>
> What's wrong with the generic pronoun `they'? Although I'd say `it'
> too...
which is why narethanaal has one word 'sokra' with which to refer to
singular things/people/etc. in the third person... so 'she loves
monkeys' and 'he loves monkeys' would use the same pronoun which
would also include bisexuals etc....

...nicole, who can't wait for winter break because then she'll get to
see her cats (who her father calls 'it's because they've been
neutered) one of whom is nicknamed 'monkey'...

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