From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 8 15:55:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B120937B4EC for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 15:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA70327; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 00:55:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Jamie Bowden Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , "G. Adam Stanislav" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laugh: [Fwd: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-008] References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 09 Feb 2001 00:55:22 +0100 In-Reply-To: Jamie Bowden's message of "Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:26:51 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jamie Bowden writes: > 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. Your examples illustrate use of the indefinite pronoun as well as an archaic form of the second person singular (the modern form, "you", also servesas second person plural, instead of the original "ye"). They do not, however, illustrate a gender-neutral form of or replacement for the third person singular pronoun and possessive adjective, which were what was being discussed. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message