> Oh, so all students are he. I see.
Don't blame me, it's the language. I try to avoid unnecessary uses of he/him, and sometimes "they" works, even if its ungrammatical, but I can't stand "s/he", or randomly choosing "he" or "she" - it's too hard keeping track of whether I'm maintaining a 1:1 ratio. If a short synonym for "he or she" starts getting used, I'll be happy to jump on the bandwagon.
I think, in this case, I blame you.
You could easily have written it as:
"But the very fact that it causes bugs means the students are already punishing themselves by not indenting while writing the code."
Originally Posted by Adak
Even easier -- just call everybody "it".
I know that was intended humorously, but when AI catches up to people, that might actually happen.Even easier -- just call everybody "it".
Only, that would be rude.Even easier -- just call everybody "it".
That's why we need to add a new pro-noun to English to mean he or she but in a gender neutral way.
Do any other languages have a word for 'he or she'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-...less_languages
The second link has a number of examples of such languages.
As you can see from the link, Japanese among one, can be very gender neutral due to words like "that someone" or "that individual" and more.
And that's one big problem when translating from japanese to english. Lots of words lose their meaning. Stupid English.
Does that mean you endorse the use of "he" for all?
Last edited by Elysia; 02-08-2008 at 02:08 AM.
Sure, why not. I'm also fine with "she" for all. Just... I ask that you don't do it in a feminine rebellious attitude sort of way. That's just annoying.
edit: I'm not implying that you do that.
Last edited by robwhit; 02-08-2008 at 11:37 AM.
I use (s)he.
Estonian doesn't. We don't have gender-specific words. We don't have future forms. We even have near to 0 prepositions! Sounds simple
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We do have gender-specific words in French. In fact, every thing has a gender in French, even a table or a book.
Standard Mandarin has also gender-specific pronoun, but only when written.
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I believe the pronoun he is gender neutral, IIRC the masculine singular pronoun from old english became deprecated in favor of the neutral form, whereas the feminine did not.
Feminazis are always complaining about something they know nothing about because they can't get laid.
There now THAT is sexist, the use of HE as a gender neutral term is NOT. So like grow up and read a book.
That pronoun, ironically, is "he".That's why we need to add a new pro-noun to English to mean he or she but in a gender neutral way.
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Yeah, but that's a very old (politically incorrect) rule and it's obviously ambiguous.
They need a singular version of "they".
Man, screw politically correct, what are we, a bunch of weak boned politicians?
The word is there, it's not offensive except to over-sensitive people, it works fine, and it's not fabricated based on some "PC" perception.
Just use it!!
Gosh!
Last edited by robwhit; 02-08-2008 at 12:16 AM.
