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...rent pro wrestling is so flimsy and fake that it would be difficult to get oneself excited by it. But suitably starved for thrills, this crowd of 500 or so camouflage-clad boot campers swallowed the whole show with a hoot and a holler. We (and I use the pronoun liberally) dangled candy in front of the fat wrestlers, yelled for push-ups from the fit ones, and screamed platoon slogans at one another. The usual stuff, and loved by most. The Army is full of wrestling fans, like your local bar - and for a couple of hours we found...
...pronoun, not e-y-e, eye," interjects Harry Cooper, Associate Curator of Modern...
...Gluck speaks to the Greeks without adopting their speech, she also eschews personal contract with her readers. Making copious use of the first person pronoun, Gluck nonetheless maintains distance. Although a good deal of Vita Nova is devoted to the regenerating power of memory, the memories recounted are usually slight images of rooms and smells. Gluck reveals herself largely through allegory and the retelling of myth, so that the presence of "I" throughout her book creates an atmosphere of polite poetics that never takes readers into themselves...
...when spoken, but it doesn't look too good on paper. Another possibility is the hybrid "s/he." However, whereas "they" seems awkward on paper, "s/he" is awfully hard to pronounce in everyday speech. A few years ago, Expos instructor Nathaniel Lewis came up with a novel solution to the pronoun problem when he and his students invented the pronoun "e" to substitute for its inadequate pronominal brethren...
...True, pronouns like "thee" and "thou" have basically disappeared from common usage. But as Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux says, "Language has a mind of its own...Changes can not be willed by people; they almost always arise unconsciously." In other words, those who might wish to introduce the pronoun "e" into common usage would almost certainly fail, just as feminists who have endorsed the new spelling of "womyn" have met with linguistic resistance...