On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 08:47:56PM -0300, Rob Taylor wrote: > Anyway I do rather disagree with you that pronoun usage is at the > same level as connector naming. For whatever reason, it does seem > that people read 'he' as meaning a male entity, and not as a sexless > 3rd person, and hence using 'he' extensively in will give the > overall impression that you're talking about a male entity. > Language shapes thought. Any experienced linguist will tell you that language is essentially *random*. Letting it shape your thoughts is nuts, and indicates you aren't really thinking. I suspect you might be objecting that the colloquial usage in a large part of the world does not match the colloquial usage where you grew up. That's futile; it will always be that way. Every piece of text *must* be read with a critical and analytical mind. Otherwise even basic comprehension is impossible - you will read something that was not written. Like in this case. And you can't blame the author for it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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