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Re: Abolish antisexism rules! Long live the equivalence of people!



I wrote:
> Or do as Feynman did in his textbooks: randomly switch back and forth
> between 'he' and 'she'. 

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho writes:
> Nah, 'he' and 'she' are good ways of keeping track of references.

I don't mean that he was completely random about and referred to the same
person with both pronouns.  It's just that in any given example the student
was as likely to be 'her' as 'him'.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI


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