From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 5 12:57:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05B537B405 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:57:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g05KvJi56360; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 21:57:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 21:57:19 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200201052057.g05KvJi56360@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The BSD daemon In-Reply-To: <200201051947.g05JlX602925@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.4-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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". Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message