Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 14:47:32 -0500 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The BSD daemon Message-ID: <200201051947.g05JlX602925@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jan 2002 16:23:53 %2B0100." <200201041523.g04FNr478167@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver orated, > And by the way, it isn't "his". According to Kirk, it > is neither male nor female. I don't know why people keep > thinking it's a male. There's nothing that supports that > assumption. ;-) But in English, "his" does not denote gender, unless indicated = otherwise by context (whereas "her" always indicates gender). = He/his/him are used for unknown gender. The only other possibility is = it/it's/it in the *absence* of gender. = So is being neither the same as being devoid of gender (which would = mean "it"), or is it some status of gener (meaning "he" is correct)? hawk -- = What part of "non-negotiable" didn't you understand? /"\ ASCII ribbon c= ampaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML m= ail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. = Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ = To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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