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#1 User is offline   willoby 

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Posted 2024-July-13, 08:31

Years ago, 1970's or so, Edgar Kaplan wrote an editorial about gender specific pronouns (his, her, etc.). I thought it was brilliant. I would like to read it again, but I can't find the article, and I've looked diligently. Can anyone help? Thanks. Bill O'Brien
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Posted 2024-July-14, 10:39

Maybe if you post what issues of TBW you have looked at.
Editorials are NOT named in the index of issues.

www.bridgeworld.com/pages/back issues/indexbyissue.html
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Posted 2024-July-14, 11:07

I googled this on first reading and found a reference to February 1975 (?) IIRC.
Not certain of that, but check it out if you have access.
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Posted 2024-July-14, 12:17

View Postpescetom, on 2024-July-14, 11:07, said:

I googled this on first reading and found a reference to February 1975 (?) IIRC.
Not certain of that, but check it out if you have access.


NOT Jan - June 1975. :(
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Posted 2024-July-14, 15:24

View PostPrecisionL, on 2024-July-14, 12:17, said:

NOT Feb 1975. :(


Thanks.
The (ambiguous) source was this:

https://www.isfdb.or...pl.cgi?556648+c
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Posted 2024-July-15, 08:20

View Postpescetom, on 2024-July-14, 15:24, said:

Thanks.
The (ambiguous) source was this:

https://www.isfdb.or...pl.cgi?556648+c


Oh, Feb. 1995 - sorry that issue is missing in my library. Posted Image
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Posted 2024-July-15, 09:18

If it is that article, it is one of the Chthonic stories. As mentioned in the page pescetom linked, it's also in "The Principle of Restricted Talent".

Having said that, this is not the article desired by the OP - the "pronoun" in question is "you" :-). People who know the Chthonic stories likely have a good guess as to who is "you".

I note that I made a decision about 20 years ago that, if not known or irrelevant, "opener and advancer are male, responder and overcaller are female. Try to alternate as TD". Despite the existence of some people stuck in the victorian era (or shocked into "correctness" by finding out that they aren't always the default person by some writing), I haven't been called on it once. Don't think anyone's really noticed.

"Chthonic thinks the only truly intelligent human was the one who coined the term 'dummy'." - from "Pronoun Trouble"
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Posted 2024-July-15, 15:09

View Postmycroft, on 2024-July-15, 09:18, said:

"Chthonic thinks the only truly intelligent human was the one who coined the term 'dummy'." - from "Pronoun Trouble"

"Pronoun trouble" -- isn't that a Daffy Duck line? https://www.youtube....h?v=XlzCPxxp8Ys
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