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- From: ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca ()
- Subject: Re: American English
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 08:24:12 GMT
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- (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
- >ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
-
- >>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.
-
- >In defence, I could use a circular argument :
- >"Amazing how the people who wish to avoid ambiguity defy the
- >usage of the word programme in resolving ambiguities." ;)
-
- You are amazed that I wear a coat when it is cold, but not when the
- weather is warm. I am amazed that you wear a coat when the weather is
- warm, but not when it's cold.
-
- Werner
-