Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Masculine vs Feminine netnews postings Message-ID: <219@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 15:18:28 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.219 Posted: Sat Aug 24 15:18:28 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 14:03:40 EDT References: <1528@utah-gr.UUCP> <1375@pyuxd.UUCP> Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 10 Summary: In article <1532@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes: > But in what way does this qualify as "masculine" > except that you say so? This has nothing to do with what _I_ say. It's what society says. How do you know that the numeral "4" is pronounced "four" and not "five"? Just because you say so? :-) Frank Silbermann