Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mnetor.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!sophie From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Salemanship Message-ID: <1389@mnetor.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 16:28:33 EDT Article-I.D.: mnetor.1389 Posted: Thu Jul 18 16:28:33 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 18:41:58 EDT References: <968@peora.UUCP> <1424@mtx5b.UUCP><1301@peora.UUCP> Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 64 > 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 {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie