From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 11: 2:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A8837B416 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:02:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-33qtnuo.dialup.mindspring.com ([199.174.223.216] helo=gohan.cjclark.org) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16NIYg-0005Lq-00; Sun, 06 Jan 2002 11:02:15 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by gohan.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g063B5410065; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:11:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:11:05 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Matthew Graybosch Cc: bastill@sa.apana.org.au, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: The BSD daemon Message-ID: <20020105191105.I204@gohan.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <200201051947.g05JlX602925@fac13.ds.psu.edu> <200201052057.g05KvJi56360@lurza.secnetix.de> <20020105162959.1226a57a.matthew@starbreaker.net> <02010610521500.01094@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> <20020105205934.54b40850.matthew@starbreaker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020105205934.54b40850.matthew@starbreaker.net>; from matthew@starbreaker.net on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 08:59:34PM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 08:59:34PM -0500, Matthew Graybosch wrote: [snip] > You're right, but I didn't include objects since I've never heard of a > generic object referenced by "he" or "she". Ships are "shes." Another data point: Strunk and White, still used widely as a style guide, recommends the use of "he" and male pronouns for persons of unknown or unspecified gender. But the final answer is there is no "rule," just one's prefered style. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message