X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,66d3a4e5a26c0401 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-06 03:32:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!cox.net!news2.west.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art From: Faux_Pseudo Subject: Re: ASCII Art Fart for Wed, Apr 03, 2002 References: <0b5nau8pblpq4qaq8ei6n7nrouq4ns0s3j@4ax.com> <2i4tausa5u8sh0obftpv6h7bm9uvqhge1r@4ax.com> Reply-To: Faux_Pseudo@yahoo.comERCIAL Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Lines: 46 Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 11:32:41 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.8.9.87 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.west.cox.net 1018092761 68.8.9.87 (Sat, 06 Apr 2002 06:32:41 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 06:32:41 EST Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:16670 --(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- --(Philip Newton said it like only they can.)-- > 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. Thanks for the bookmarks. I can now post one line replys to the language nazis. And thanks for the laugh. Did you catch this on the FAQ? reminds me of app --help [...] --help prints help message [...] -- +-(faux@fugozi)-(0.01|0.04|0.00)-(03:30|Sat Apr 06)-+ cat ~/.{sig,uin} It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. - Andrew Jackson UIN=66618055