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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



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