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- From: mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi)
- Subject: Re: Sexist language
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:48:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.044100.7220@cdf.toronto.edu> g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu (Rosemary Waigh) writes:
- >In article <BzLCtr.3MI@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@banshee.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
- >>Awwww....I was just changing the sentences to make them sound more
- >>correct, grammatically. The essence of what he wished to convey
- >>remains the same.
- >
- >If it's a paraphrase rather than the exact words then it shouldn't be in
- >quotation marks.
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- .sig changed. Hope that makes you happy. ;)
-
- (In my dialect the null complementizer in place of "that"
- >is perfectly grammatical, and "there" is usually grammatically singular.)
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- There is countries?
- There is stars in the sky???
-
-
- *Those* are grammatically incorrect.
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- Mandar.
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- --
- "Imagine there's 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 I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some
- day you'll join us, and the world will be as one." - John Lennon.
-