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

["A.P.H. Itel" <apitel@yahoo.com>]

Thank you very much for your reply.
Then I prefer:

In the self-encountering, the person is seeing himself
in some distance and momentarily.

I don't know exactly how people are writting now in my
country. As a very famous French editor and journalist
said once in his memoirs (Jean-Francois Revel - Le
voleur dans la maison vide, Plon 1997), French people
were speaking the French language until around 1968,
and after were using a very different kind of
language. I was interested to learn about the way how
German people have to say "teacher". As a matter of
fact the same type of problem came into view in the
French language with the use of feminine gender for
words that always has been of the masculine one, or
the feminization of words that never had a feminine
spelling.

"Irrelevant stuff on the EJ list? Well, it's about a
language EJ neverwrote." 

Of course, you are perfectly right. Moreover I would
say that writting in proper English when your are
English, in proper French if you are French, in proper
German if German is more than a duty. It reminds me of
what Hannah Arendt wrote about Ernst Juenger, that his
works where the best proof and the more honest of the
extreme difficulties an individual has to be
confronted with, when it comes to fully maintain his
representation of moral value and his conception of
truth in a world where truth and morals have lost the
possibility of being perceived and identified.
We must be very concerned by how some people are
manupulating the language we are using, our own native
language, for the reason we express our moral values
and our conception of the truth with words and sentences.

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Andre-Paul Itel
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