On Tuesday 03 August 2004 15.08, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 02-Aug-04, 22:02 (CDT), Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> wrote: > > If a student falls asleep in class, they will probably absorb the > > material at an inferior rate, and their exam results will suffer. > > The trouble with that, of course, is that it's gramatically wrong. > Yes, I know current sloppy thinkers proclaim "they" is singular. Nuts > to them, says I. > > If we're going to play the Political Correctness game, we should take > the commonly used[1] terms 'zie' and 'zer': Or just use 'it'. Makes sure that those questions don't re-appear when AI finally reaches a high level or when the first trained monkey becomes DD. HTH -- vbi -- Available for key signing in Zürich and Basel, Switzerland (what's this? Look at http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro)
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