Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:52:15 +1030 From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> To: Matthew Graybosch <matthew@starbreaker.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The BSD daemon Message-ID: <02010610521500.01094@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> In-Reply-To: <20020105162959.1226a57a.matthew@starbreaker.net> References: <200201051947.g05JlX602925@fac13.ds.psu.edu> <200201052057.g05KvJi56360@lurza.secnetix.de> <20020105162959.1226a57a.matthew@starbreaker.net>
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On Sunday 06 January 2002 07:59, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > 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. Like you I hate people messing with language in order to manipulate thought. > 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 ** OR objects ** than to > humans. Agreed - with the insertion. -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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