X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,66d3a4e5a26c0401 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-05 22:14:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!212.172.0.52!not-for-mail From: Philip Newton Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: ASCII Art Fart for Wed, Apr 03, 2002 Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 08:15:14 +0200 Organization: very little Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2i4tausa5u8sh0obftpv6h7bm9uvqhge1r@4ax.com> References: <0b5nau8pblpq4qaq8ei6n7nrouq4ns0s3j@4ax.com> Reply-To: "Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton" NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.172.0.52 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1018073691 30746084 212.172.0.52 (16 [11583]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:16662 On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 13:38:14 GMT, Faux_Pseudo 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 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.