This is an article about the lack of a gender neutral 3rd person singular (he / she) in the English language, if this is really a problem, and a couple of words about the measures that have been attempted to solve the “problem”
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Imagine, if you can, a film that is made in Hollywood, is 2 hours and 20 minutes long, released in 2004, and has the incredibly cheesy title of “Man on Fire”.
Imagine, if you will, that this same film only has one name on the billboards, and that is Denzel Washington. Furthermore, it tries to tempt you to watch it, by explaining that “bla bla bla super special assassin agent bla bla bla talked into working as a bodyguard bla bla girl he is supposed to protect kidnapped bla bla bla opens a can of whoop-ass”.
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Layer Cake is a film released in 2004. When a film markets itself with the tagline “By the people who brought you Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”, you realise that you are about to receive a rather big serving of “gimme some more, jack”.
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The six degrees of separation theory, while most interesting as a theory, has several major flaws - at least in practicality.
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