From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 8 9:25:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [209.0.55.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C6C37B401 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:25:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 7B7D1755E; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:26:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78B6E1D8E; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:26:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:26:51 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , "G. Adam Stanislav" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laugh: [Fwd: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-008] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 8 Feb 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: :Rahul Siddharthan writes: :> The idea is that if "his" is supposed to be gender-neutral in :> generic situations, "her" should also be regarded as gender-neutral. : :This discussion reminds me of the LaTeX macros that you use instead of :third person singular pronouns and possessive adjectives, which :alternate between the male and female form. : :BTW, Norwegian has a very useful word which means "the concerned :person", which makes it relatively easy to construct gender-neutral :phrases. The only way to do that in English is to "play the pronoun :game", i.e. use (gender-neutral) plural forms instead of singular :forms, which makes for some pretty corny sentences... One can easily be gender neutral if one so chooses. The out of use thee, thine, and thou are all gender neutral pronouns as well. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message