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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.

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