Re: [ejlist] DIE SCHERE 42 - the gender of prenouns

[John King <john.king@st-johns.oxford.ac.uk>]

> In the self-encountering, the person is seeing ITSELF
> (instead of herself) in some distance and momentarily.
> 
> But is it really the correct translation? I don't
> know!
> 

'fraid not. A person is either "himself" or "herself". Itself refers to
lifeless and genderless objects. So, the translation depends on context
and degree of feminist inclination ;-)

John