Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 19:39:21 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laugh: [Fwd: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-008] Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010208193726.04763b10@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010208150641.A15166@lpt.ens.fr> References: <xzpzofxffa2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3A81DDC9.EF6D7D84@originative.co.uk> <3.0.6.32.20010207223155.009d42a0@mail85.pair.com> <20010208110159.E2429@lpt.ens.fr> <xzpzofxffa2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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At 07:06 AM 2/8/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >And I learned of this amusing situation in French: the plural pronoun, >unlike in English, is gender-biased; it's "elles" only when the gender >of all parties is feminine, otherwise (for all-masculine or mixed) >it's "ils". Ah, but at least they have the unisex pronoun "on." --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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