From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 5 16:17: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A185337B41A for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 16:17:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from BAPhD.gihon.org.au (dialup-13.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.142]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA21015; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:47:01 +1030 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: Matthew Graybosch , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The BSD daemon Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:52:15 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <200201051947.g05JlX602925@fac13.ds.psu.edu> <200201052057.g05KvJi56360@lurza.secnetix.de> <20020105162959.1226a57a.matthew@starbreaker.net> In-Reply-To: <20020105162959.1226a57a.matthew@starbreaker.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02010610521500.01094@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Sunday 06 January 2002 07:59, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > 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. Like you I hate people messing with language in order to manipulate thought. > 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 ** OR objects ** than to > humans. Agreed - with the insertion. -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message