baggins@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Bill Segall) (07/16/90)
I believe there is a program called sexist that locates phrases and words
that do not belong in the New-English. If anyone has a public-domain/free
copy of this that they would like to give away, could they mail me. I will
ask the closest person to mail me the source.
Thanks,
Bill Segall email: baggins@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au
Ph: (07) 377 2956
The thing that astonished him was that cats should have two holes cut in
their coat exactly at the place where their eyes are : Lichtenberg
========================================================================swh@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold) (07/17/90)
>>> I believe there is a program called sexist that locates phrases and words >>> that do not belong in the New-English. If anyone has a public-domain/free ^^^^^^ >>> copy of this that they would like to give away, could they mail me. I will ^^^^ ^^^^ >>> ask the closest person to mail me the source. ------------------- Ah, but does this program catch grammatical errors committed to avoid sexist pronouns, such as above? :-)
lau@kings.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau) (08/01/90)
In article <-286629990@hpcupt1.HP.COM> swh@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold) writes: >>>> I believe there is a program called sexist that locates phrases and words >>>> that do not belong in the New-English. If anyone has a public-domain/free > ^^^^^^ >>>> copy of this that they would like to give away, could they mail me. I will > ^^^^ ^^^^ >>>> ask the closest person to mail me the source. > >Ah, but does this program catch grammatical errors committed to avoid >sexist pronouns, such as above? :-) I know there is a smiley attached to this so I won't get too worked up over it but I hope the use of "they" was intentional in the sentence. There is a very good discussion of the problems and the origins of using "he" in _The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing_ by Casey Miller and Kate Swift. "Once upon a time you was a plural pronoun only. It assumed its singular function (replacing thou) in the days before prescriptive grammarians were around to inhibit that kind of change. English needs a comparable third person singular pronoun and, for many, they meets the need:" The book is very good and has suggestions for getting around the pronoun problem. Unfortunately, using "they" doesn't seem to be generally accepted. I always wonder if I should point out that the use is intentional. Yan. )~ Yan K. Lau lau@kings.wharton.upenn.edu The Wharton School ~/~ -Sheenaphile- 128.91.11.233 University of Pennsylvania /\ God/Goddess/All that is -- the source of love, light and inspiration!