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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: Genderless languages
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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 03:14:45 GMT
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In a previous article, ablehr@online.no (Anders Blehr) says:

>
>Leland Bryant Ross wrote:
>
>> In a previous article, ablehr@online.no (Anders Blehr) says:
>> 
>> >:D It should be "..."han" and "hon"..." - in writing Swedish I
>> >mistakenly entered the Norwegian "og" for English "and"...
>> 
>> Are you sure you didn't mean to write "och"? BTW, I had no problem
>> reading it the way you wrote it, and I think it looks better with "og".
>
>When I slip into a language other than the one I'm writing, I don't
>"mean to" slip into a third language instead, since the whole "slipping
>into" is unintentional.  Other than that, why should I slip into Swedish
>rather than Norwegian, given that I'm Norwegian?

No particularly strong reason, just the possibility that between Swedish 
pronouns a Swedish conjunction might feel more natural than a Norwegian 
one, even thought the whole three-word phrase is embedded in an English 
text.  And besides, I didn't know for sure that you were Norwegian.  I 
thought you *probably* were, given the .no and the reasonably 
norsk-looking name, but as I'm sure you know neither of those *proves* 
anything.
--
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