From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 5 13:20:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from IMGate1.cshore.com (imgate1.cshore.com [63.237.136.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 661FE37B420 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:19:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from sephiroth (dialup-uu-dynamic162.cshore.com [63.112.158.162]) by IMGate1.cshore.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 17CD223EFD for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 16:21:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 16:29:59 -0500 From: Matthew Graybosch To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The BSD daemon Message-Id: <20020105162959.1226a57a.matthew@starbreaker.net> In-Reply-To: <200201052057.g05KvJi56360@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200201051947.g05JlX602925@fac13.ds.psu.edu> <200201052057.g05KvJi56360@lurza.secnetix.de> Organization: starbreaker.net X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="?J+t_l3/94/=.anw" 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 --?J+t_l3/94/=.anw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 21:57:19 +0100 (CET) Oliver Fromme wrote: > dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > > But in English, "his" does not denote gender, unless indicated > > otherwise by context (whereas "her" always indicates gender). > > I think you're wrong. I learned at school: "his" == male, > "her" == female, "its" == neuter. When you don't know the > gender of a person, you simply write "his or her". > > At least that's how you should do it in order to be > respectful and "politically correct". I won't get into "political correctness"; it'll only lead me to a rant that will begin with Orwell's "newspeak" and end somewhere in the backroads of Chaos. However, I learned in school that either "he" or "it" were legitimate neuter pronouns, though the neuter "he" was somewhat archaic, and that "it" was more often applied to animals than to humans. -- Matthew Graybosch http://www.starbreaker.net GnuPG Key ID: 0x45BC4581 "Sex, Unix, and rock 'n roll" -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 G! d- s:+ a-- C+++ UB++++ P+ L+++ E W++ N+ o K- w--- O- M-- V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b++++ DI+++ D+ G++ e* h+ r++ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ --?J+t_l3/94/=.anw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8N3BaXG3c5kW8RYERAie1AJ9O2ajLydnwIn2qz+PLy+OQLtLjlwCglmnd Qjh6ovs6GyWyYtBMVSS4rYs= =rGLC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --?J+t_l3/94/=.anw-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message