Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:26:51 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laugh: [Fwd: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-008] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10102080925310.29538-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpzofxffa2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 8 Feb 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: :Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> writes: :> The idea is that if "his" is supposed to be gender-neutral in :> generic situations, "her" should also be regarded as gender-neutral. : :This discussion reminds me of the LaTeX macros that you use instead of :third person singular pronouns and possessive adjectives, which :alternate between the male and female form. : :BTW, Norwegian has a very useful word which means "the concerned :person", which makes it relatively easy to construct gender-neutral :phrases. The only way to do that in English is to "play the pronoun :game", i.e. use (gender-neutral) plural forms instead of singular :forms, which makes for some pretty corny sentences... One can easily be gender neutral if one so chooses. The out of use thee, thine, and thou are all gender neutral pronouns as well. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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