X-Received: by 10.66.86.129 with SMTP id p1mr1353047paz.24.1357679041685; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:04:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.108.200 with SMTP id hm8mr4147752igb.10.1357679041645; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:04:01 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!f6no6167090pbd.1!news-out.google.com!s9ni95131pbb.0!nntp.google.com!ld4no3689944pbb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 13:04:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.28.149.29; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.28.149.29 References: <396e3ff0-2a44-4d8b-917c-3b9205a567a6@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: java software naming question From: Lew Injection-Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:04:01 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21221 Stuart wrote: >Roedy Green wrote: >>> Maybe we could borrow the new hen from Swedish. > Gene Wirchenko wrote: >> "hen" being a female bird, we need a different word. I thought > > of "per" (short for person): >> I - me - my - mine >> per - per - per - pers > > What do you think of Gene's suggestion, folks? Hasn't per had a good idea? > > See, we are already using it. The royal "we" is in use there. I doubt it will fare better than "te/ter" did. Apparently the English-speaking is so used to having a gender-neutral pronoun already that it refused to adopt a redundant one. -- Lew