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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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Subject: Re: Re: Salemanship
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 16:28:33 EDT
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>  I use these two terms ('female-type' and 'male-type')
> because if I don't, a handful of people come out of strange corners

That's Toronto, Canada.  As far as I know, you can find it on any good
atlas.

> and begin uttering hostile rhetoric
> because whatever word I happened to use offended them.

How silly of me!!  I should have been *flattered* to be called a "puta"!

> The above terms
> connote nothing at all except a person's sex, and are based on a strange
> grammatical flaw in Niklaus Wirth's original book on Pascal.
> 
Now I understand it!  well, why didn't you tell us so beforehand?  you
learned english from computers!!  well, I've got a really exciting one
for you:  There is a BIG superset of pascal that you can learn too, it's
called *english*, and you can find the words you are looking for in any
dictionary.  I guess you might need some help, ok:

program find_word();
begin
go_to(bookstore);
locate(employee,bookstore);
ask(employee,dictionary);
binary_search("woman",dictionary);
read_definition("woman");
binary_search("man",dictionary);
read_definition("man");
end.

Please forgive my pascal.  It's even worse than my spanish, but I manage
somehow....

> Having argued endlessly with Sophie Quigley, Beth@sphinx, and Jeannette
> Zobjbeck (sp.) over words for female people, and other irritating aspects
> of English syntax,

I agree entirely with you!!  female people ARE very irritating aspects
of English syntax!  I think we should dispose of them entirely.  English
syntax would be all the better for it.

> I would rather not use any words at all than get into another argument.

My, that's an excellent idea!!  If you use no words at all in net.women,
I give you my solemn promise that I won't argue with you ever again.

> (However, I have decided Jeannette is basically a nice person.

You know, that is really very generous of you!  You must be a really nice
person yourself to be able to decide like that.  (say "thank you" to the
nice man, Jeannette)

> This doesn't absolve the former two, however, who have never yet said
> anything to me that wasn't purely vindictive.

Phew!!! I thought I was going to be absolved there for a minute.
Don't worry Jeannette!!  we'll help you out next round of absolutions.

> Shyy-Anzr:  J. Eric Roskos
-- 
Sophie Quigley
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