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LINGUISTICS & CULTURE
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| Autor: | Miguel Vieira |
| E-mail: | não-disponível |
| Data: | 01/JUN/2003 3:38 PM |
| Assunto: | Re: Political correctness |
| Mensagem: | Hi, The other answer was interesting... but I have my own explanation. When the women's movement (Feminist movement) was entrenched in the United States, the sex biased pronoun - HE - was switched to a sex neutral pronoun - THEIR. The feminists did some really good lobbying that eventually turned the pronoun - HE - into a politically incorrect pronoun when refering to females. As result, a sex neutral pronoun - THEIR - was implanted in the psyches of the people. So now most people will go out of their way not to be labeled a "sexist" or of being politically incorrect. |
English Made in Brazil -- English, Portuguese, & contrastive linguistics
Is it correct? – Ronaldo Cardoso 
01/JUN/2003, 8:38 AM Re: Is it correct? – m robertson 01/JUN/2003, 9:20 AM 'It' as a neutral singular pronoun – José Roberto 02/JUN/2003, 10:12 AM Re: 'It' as a neutral singular pronoun – Miguel Vieira 02/JUN/2003, 4:31 PM Re: 'It' as a neutral singular pronoun – pat 02/JUN/2003, 6:29 PM Re: Is it correct? – Roberto Gomes 03/JUN/2003, 9:27 AM 
Re: Political correctness – Miguel Vieira 01/JUN/2003, 3:38 PM Re: Political correctness – Elsa 01/JUN/2003, 6:07 PM pronoun deficiency – m robertson 01/JUN/2003, 11:25 PM Re: Political correctness – pat 02/JUN/2003, 7:58 AM Re: Political correctness – Miguel Vieira 02/JUN/2003, 4:18 PM Re: Political correctness – pat 02/JUN/2003, 6:22 PM Re: Is it correct? – André Oliveira 02/JUN/2003, 9:36 AM