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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!hersch
- Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:42:04 EST
- From: <HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Message-ID: <92363.204204HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Sexist hypocrites
- Lines: 18
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- In article <1992Dec28.232023.17000@news.columbia.edu>,
- gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) says:
- >
- >
- >The PC folks (or perhaps we should call them the logically challenged) cannot
- >grasp a concept that speakers of almost every other romance language grasp
- >with ease and without problem.
- >
-
- Hm. Maybe this is the source of all the problems I have with some of
- the things that you say, Gabe. Apparently you're under some weird
- misapprehension that English is a Romance language! Maybe all the
- misunderstandings, prejudices, and misjudgments spring from this!
-
- H.
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- Herschel Browne
- "The" American University
-