Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:31:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laugh: [Fwd: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-008] Message-ID: <20010209143121.J16260@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010208193726.04763b10@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 07:39:21PM -0700 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> <20010208150641.A15166@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010208193726.04763b10@localhost>
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On Thursday, 8 February 2001 at 19:39:21 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > 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." "on" is masculine. Yes, it's used to represent females as well. But that's what we did in English too, until Political Correctness got the better of grammar. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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