Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:55:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Gender (was: The BSD daemon) Message-ID: <20020106104541.G3853-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20020106173602.F45844@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 6 January 2002 at 7:35:33 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 02:47:32PM -0500, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > >> Oliver orated, > >>> And by the way, it isn't "his". According to Kirk, it > >>> is neither male nor female. I don't know why people keep > >>> thinking it's a male. There's nothing that supports that > >>> assumption. ;-) > > The problem is that there are (used to be) in languages > > male, female and neutral nouns. The mistake is to think > > these designations have anything to do with gender, they > > often do not. They are technical grammatical terms. > Oh, yes, Greek has similar rules. "D=E6mon" has a gender based on its > form as well. It's neuter. Talking about Beastie we should not use any pronouns or articles. I imagine the old egyptians did the same with Pharao. This is purely a matter of respect. Uli. #=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D# # Peter Ulrich Kruppa # # Wuppertal - Germany # # www.pukruppa.de - www.2000d.de # #=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D# To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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