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At 07:06 AM 2/8/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

>And I learned of this amusing situation in French: the plural pronoun,
>unlike in English, is gender-biased; it's "elles" only when the gender
>of all parties is feminine, otherwise (for all-masculine or mixed)
>it's "ils".

Ah, but at least they have the unisex pronoun "on."

--Brett



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