Gender neutrality and language

[Christina Paulston]

Just for the record  "if it was good enough for Jesus etc" is a quote  
from Menchen.  (Did I misspell his name - my spelling checker thinks  
so ?)  C B Paulston
On Mar 1, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Siegel, Jason F. wrote:

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> In an effort to redirect the discussion back to language policy and  
> away from a topic that could easily be argued about with no end in  
> sight, I would like to take the opportunity to pose a question to  
> the list (and this is the genuine inquiry of a relative newcomer to  
> the field): How often is religion invoked in discussions of language  
> policy across the world? I've heard the old quote in support of  
> Official English in the U.S. "If it's good enough for Jesus, it's  
> good enough for me." (attributed to various people). In the research  
> I've done on French policy, however, religion seems to be completely  
> absent from the public discourse on language policy. So again, how  
> frequently do religious concerns form a part of the discussion of  
> language policy? Do we see it more often in certain types of  
> language policy (e.g. feminization) than in others (e.g. acquisition  
> planning)?
>
> --Jason
>
>
> --
> Jason F. Siegel
> Ph.D. Student, Linguistics & French Linguistics
> Department of French & Italian
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> siegeljf at indiana.edu
>
>
> Quoting L Pierce <ldpierce at yahoo.com>:
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>> It's recorded in the BIble.  You can read the history
>> for yourself, as you can read the histories of the
>> previously quoted men (quoted by an earlier
>> contributor) in other recorded histories; I gather
>> that is the empirical evidence you have for them.  I
>> don't really know why you want to change the issue,
>> but I am happy to answer your question.
>>
>> Lisa
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>> --- Ronald Kephart <rkephart at unf.edu> wrote:
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>>> On 2/29/08 7:13 PM, "L Pierce" <ldpierce at yahoo.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>> > What some ignorant men wrote hundreds of years ago
>>> did
>>> > not create the order, God did...
>>>
>>> We have empirical evidence that men wrote those
>>> rules. Do you have the same
>>> quality evidence for your assertion?
>>>
>>> Ron
>>>
>>>
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