nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) (08/12/83)
From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
By using IT, you are objectifying people, which there is
certainly too much of in the computer-hacker community
(things like, so-and-so is broken, etc.). I don't like that.
We don't think that it objectifies people to have the third person
plural personal pronoun the same as the impersonal pronoun -- why
should we mind then for singular case? Replace "he" and "she" with
"it" today!
Singular Plural
------- ------
He They
She They
It They
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Doug Alan
decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!nessus
Nessus@MIT-MC