[lg policy] Re: English has a traditional solution to gender-neutral pronouns

[Dave Sayers]

Just seen a nice little imaginary fight about this, referencing different ages of 
English: https://goo.gl/AR7M3N.

And like the Economist article, also useful for teaching history of English!

Dave

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Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | www.shu.ac.uk
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
dave.sayers at cantab.net | http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers



On 20/04/2017 10:40, Dave Sayers wrote:
> Nice bit of pop linguistics from The Economist about this ongoing debate:
> https://goo.gl/FXEPDm. I especially liked the historical comparison with ye-you;
> that'll tie in nicely with teaching the history of English!
>
> Singularly yours,
> Dave
>
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> Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132
> Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | www.shu.ac.uk
> Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
> dave.sayers at cantab.net | http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers
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