Re: ASCII Art Fart for Wed, Apr 03, 2002
From Philip Newton <pne...@newton.digitalspace.net>
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· 6 Apr 2002 06:15 · View full thread
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On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 13:38:14 GMT, Faux_Pseudo <Fau...@yahoo.comERCIAL> wrote: > >>--(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- > >> --(Tran Q. Nguyen said it like only they can.)-- > > > > they? > > This is the second time I have covered this in a week so I will just > cut and paste. > > A short falling in the english language. There is no third person non > sexual pronoun that does not reduce someone to "it" or as you pointed > out make one person into many. I wish we whould get that fixed. I > have submitted a bug reports to Webster and Wordsworth but they > bounced back with some error about them being long since dead. Well, there've certainly been enough suggestions... see http://www.panix.com/~kingdon/gender.html and http://www.aetherlumina.com/gnp/ , for example. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <nos...@gmx.li> That really is my address; no need to remove anything to reply. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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