Re: The character "@" and gender studies...

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Oct 25 2002 - 09:12:05 EDT

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At 05:31 -0700 2002-10-25, Ramiro Espinoza wrote:
>In some latin countries the people involved in gender studies are
>using the character "@" to mean "a/o".
>
>Example: "Tod@s nosotr@s" (instead of "todos nosotros" -"All of us"-).
>
>They try to give a male and female approach to the spanish generic words.

That's pretty horrible. Why don't they just use the letter schwa? :-)

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