Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 18:15:02 -0700 (MST) From: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Laugh: [Fwd: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-008] Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.32.0102081814240.12824-100000@inconnu.isu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10102080925310.29538-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Jamie Bowden wrote: >On 8 Feb 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > >:Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> 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. Amish ported to computers: who'd'a' thunk it? :) >Jamie Bowden > > -- You have paid nothing for the preceding, therefore it's worth every penny you've paid for it: if you did pay for it, might I remind you of the immortal words of Phineas Taylor Barnum regarding fools and money? Who is John Galt? galt@inconnu.isu.edu, that's who! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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