From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
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> >> English lacks a few important words, thus leading to all the
"neutral
> >> language" nonsense. We lack a word for man in the
non-specific sense.
And we
> >> could do with a neutral 3rd person singular pronoun. S/he and they are
ugly.
> >>
> >> Alan
> >>
> >>
> >s/h/it?
> >
> >Adam
>
> Finnish has two singular third person pronouns.  One is
> animate and the other inanimate.

"H„n" and "Se". Sometimes when reading something that's
been translated from English (or many other languages) it's easy to see
where the translator wasn't paying attention: for example if there are two
people doing something, a man and a woman, then in English you can say
"he did this and then she said that..." - but if you translate it
to Finnish, it will be " did this and then  did
that", so you don't actually know who did what. Happens a lot in cheap
books (i.e. translated by less than professional translators).


Antti Kurenniemi
(but how the h*ll did you know that?)

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