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- From: mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi)
- Subject: Re: American English
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:48:02 GMT
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- In article <BzpE0C.DDH@ccu.umanitoba.ca> ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca () writes:
- >(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
-
- And I am amazed that you are humour impaired. ;)
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- Mandar.
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