)Another artificial distinction, still in use today, between the plural personal pronouns "hun" (for the indirect object) and "hen" (for the direct object) was created by Christiaen van Heule, who wrote "De Nederduytsche spraec-konst ofte tael-beschrijvinghe" ["The Low German speech-art or language-description"] (printed in 1633).In the same vein, the distinction between masculine and feminine nouns was rigidly maintained, although this distinction was felt only vaguely at best in the northern dialects.