Word: pronoun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interesting to read the apologia for "he" as the generic pronoun which some linguists sent to the Crimson. Without arguing about the supposed facts involved, we present the following hypothetical: in culture R the language is such that pronouns are different according to the color of the people involved, rather than their sex. In R there are separate pronouns for brown people, black people, red people, yellow people and white people: the unmarked pronoun just happens to be the one used for white people. In addition, the colored peoples just happen to constitute an oppressed group. Now imagine that this...
...unmarked in the language of the Tunica Indians) is simply a feature of grammar. It is unlikely to be an impediment to any change in the patterns of the sexual division of labor toward which our society may wish to evolve. There is really no cause for anxiety or pronoun-envy on the part of those seeking such changes...
...exactly was the crime committed? By enshrining the transcendental ego, the "imperial self." The three culprits substituted I for we as the national pronoun, making the concept of community "almost un-American...