Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: Spivak is not English, Episode 2

Ed Murphy on Sat, 8 Dec 2007 18:53:45 -0700 (MST)

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Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: Spivak is not English, Episode 2

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Subject: Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: Spivak is not English, Episode 2
From: Ed Murphy <emurphy42@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:52:11 -0800
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0x44 wrote:

> Spivak is not commonly used slang. Further, B Nomic inherently 
> recognizes the inadequacy of English when it comes to neutral gendered 
> pronouns and declares that all pronouns apply no matter the gender of 
> the pronoun. Since we treat all pronouns equally, there is no need for 
> non-standard artificial pronouns.

Disallowing Spivak is not treating all pronouns equally.
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