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[Alix Pexton via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/06/2015 2:30 AM, weaselcat wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 00:57:34 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 20:14:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> Contrary to technical official definition, in REAL WORLD usage, "he"
>>> is BOTH a masuline AND a gender-neutral pronoun. A few occasional
>>> nutbags who deliberately ignore the "gender-neutral" possibility in
>>> order to promote their "you are all sexists" agenda is NO excuse for
>>> bowing to thier pressure.
>>
>> Personally I don't perceive he as ever being gender neutral(us native
>> speaker). If I am trying to be gender neutral then I will use "they"
>> or "that person" or "one". If some one did try to use he in a gender
>> neutral context then I think it would sound weird to me.
>
> 'he' has been a gender neutral pronoun for centuries, and as far as I'm
> aware this has its roots in latin using 'man'(vir?) as a gender neutral
> pronoun.

As far as I know, "he" was not historically gender neutral, but "man" 
used to be. In Old English, "man" was simply the suffix that meant 
"person" ("person" being a newer loan word), hence words like "chairman" 
and "foreman" are gender neutral (The rise of "chairperson" is feminism 
gone mad (or ignorant) -- she said). The Old English word for man was 
weiman (or werman), literally a male-person and was probably dropped as 
in some dialects it would likely be pronounced to similarly to "woman".

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