From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Subject: Re: GitHub contributions
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:56:15 -0700
Date: 2019-09-17T16:56:15-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736gu1nq8.fsf@nightsong.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: qlrcq0$1kft$1@gioia.aioe.org
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> An exciting advantage is that "it" is personless, so people carrying
> multiple personalities or none at will feel offended no more ...
There was a Spider Robinson(?) story where an editor disparaged a
proposal of a new pronoun combining "she", "he", and "it". The pronoun
itself was not precisely specified but the reader could figure it out.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-15 17:09 GitHub contributions ldries46
2019-09-16 18:56 ` Anh Vo
2019-09-16 21:57 ` Keith Thompson
2019-09-17 0:41 ` Anh Vo
2019-09-17 5:22 ` Lucretia
2019-09-17 18:56 ` Stephen Leake
2019-09-17 19:06 ` Simon Wright
2019-09-17 19:09 ` Shark8
2019-09-17 19:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-09-17 23:56 ` Paul Rubin [this message]
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