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Is it time English adopt a genderless pronoun?
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07-21-2012, 08:45 AM
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WT Sharpe
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I thought it interesting that in
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
all officers, regardless of gender, were addressed as 'Sir'. I believe this carried forward for a while but was later dropped.
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