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- Subject: Re: American English
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:44:23 GMT
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- (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
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- >Amazing how the very Americans who shouted down the program/me
- >distinction, applaud the freshman/first-year distinction!
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- Amazing how the very people who embrace the program/me distinction to
- resolve an ambiguity that is trivial to avoid, and has never even been
- noticed on a continent with a significant fraction of the world's
- computer programmers, are the same people (2 of them anyway) that
- resist perfectly natural use of gender neutral language that resolves
- ambiguities that otherwise occur everyday, and moreover, are offensive
- to many.
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- Werner
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- > Mandar.
- >--
- >"Imagine there are no countries. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die
- > for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
- > You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope that some
- > day you'll join us, and the world will be as one." - John Lennon.
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