Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.social Subject: Re: Salemanship Message-ID: <1301@peora.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 13:15:25 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1301 Posted: Mon Jul 15 13:15:25 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 06:39:02 EDT References: <968@peora.UUCP> <1424@mtx5b.UUCP>Followup-To: net.flame Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 36 Xref: watmath net.singles:7936 net.social:833 >In article <1216@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes: >>thing for me; that having known many male-type people very well, and a >>reasonable number of female-type people fairly well, I have observed many >>times that reasonably intelligent female-type people still get easily >>"taken in" by the male-type people with the cleverest "sales pitches," > >What is the 'male-type' 'female-type' crap, anyway? Has the use of >these ridiculous and superfluous terms been discussed before? Glad you asked. I use these two terms because if I don't, a handful of people come out of strange corners and begin uttering hostile rhetoric because whatever word I happened to use offended them. 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. 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 would rather not use any words at all than get into another argument. Disclaimer follows. (However, I have decided Jeannette is basically a nice person. This doesn't absolve the former two, however, who have never yet said anything to me that wasn't purely vindictive. However, it seems pointless to endlessly argue over mere words, especially when there is so little time remaining to do so... I hope you won't start another such argument in here; there is enough in net.flame already.) -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 [But, at the time you are reading this, probably in New Jersey]