Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 16:29:59 -0500 From: Matthew Graybosch <matthew@starbreaker.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The BSD daemon Message-ID: <20020105162959.1226a57a.matthew@starbreaker.net> In-Reply-To: <200201052057.g05KvJi56360@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200201051947.g05JlX602925@fac13.ds.psu.edu> <200201052057.g05KvJi56360@lurza.secnetix.de>
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--?J+t_l3/94/=.anw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 21:57:19 +0100 (CET) Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> wrote: > 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". I won't get into "political correctness"; it'll only lead me to a rant that will begin with Orwell's "newspeak" and end somewhere in the backroads of Chaos. However, I learned in school that either "he" or "it" were legitimate neuter pronouns, though the neuter "he" was somewhat archaic, and that "it" was more often applied to animals than to humans. -- Matthew Graybosch http://www.starbreaker.net GnuPG Key ID: 0x45BC4581 "Sex, Unix, and rock 'n roll" -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 G! d- s:+ a-- C+++ UB++++ P+ L+++ E W++ N+ o K- w--- O- M-- V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b++++ DI+++ D+ G++ e* h+ r++ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ --?J+t_l3/94/=.anw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8N3BaXG3c5kW8RYERAie1AJ9O2ajLydnwIn2qz+PLy+OQLtLjlwCglmnd Qjh6ovs6GyWyYtBMVSS4rYs= =rGLC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --?J+t_l3/94/=.anw-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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