Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 21:57:19 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The BSD daemon Message-ID: <200201052057.g05KvJi56360@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200201051947.g05JlX602925@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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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". Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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