From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 8 20: 0:27 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 23B9C37B491 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 19:59:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id B40667567; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 20:01:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B12951D89; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 20:01:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 20:01:39 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Greg Lehey Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Rahul Siddharthan , "G. Adam Stanislav" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gender in Indo-European languages (was: Laugh: [Fwd: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-008]) In-Reply-To: <20010209102117.G11145@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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 Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: :On Thursday, 8 February 2001 at 9:26:51 -0800, Jamie Bowden wrote: :> One can easily be gender neutral if one so chooses. :One would sound somewhat stilted referring to ones possessions. One's posessions would be referred to as 'it'. :> The out of use thee, thine, and thou are all gender neutral pronouns :> as well. :"Thine" is a particular case of the possessive adjective "thy" :(specifically, accusative). In older days "thy" definitely had :gender, though it's now degenerate. "Thou" and "thee" are the same :word in nominative and accusative respectively. They're personal :pronouns (second person singular), and I find it difficult to see how :they would address the problem at hand any better than "you" and :"your". Ack, deprecated versions of you and yours. I could swear Englash had deprecated pronouns for referring to someone in a gender neutral fashion. 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