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From: acli@byron.net4.io.org (Ambrose Li)
Subject: Re: them versus him/she, which is correct?
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 20:42:09 GMT
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On 11 Feb 1996 16:39:28 GMT, in article <4fl640$ljm@news.ccit.arizona.edu>, Hung J Lu <hlu@aruba.ccit.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
>(I like <ey>, too, if it is pronounced as <ee>. Why? because
>it coincides with the third-person pronoun in my native tongue
>Hoklo [:-)]. Come to think about it, why not just use <e>?)

which would sound perfectly natural to anyone who MOOs around :-)

	The salesperson is busy because e is with a customer.

I am not particularly fond of the idea, but maybe we can all adopt
MOOspeak <grin>:

	@gender spivak
	Gender set to Spivak.
	Your pronouns:  e,em,eir,eirs,emself,E,Em,Eir,Eirs,Emself


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