Dear Eleanor,
In the English I (and Gerard) learned at school, 'he' was (also) the
generic way to refer to an unknown person. In the English of the future,
the use of 'he' may well be discouraged altogether. Meanwhile the top
generic pronoun is currently 'they'.
So, who knows how you are supposed to interpret that word in a BB
message in 2020??
;-)
Rasmus Fogh
On 11/03/2020 16:53, Eleanor Dodson wrote:
Am I missing something? He? She? It? Are they now interchangeable?
On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 16:15, Tim Gruene <tim.gru...@univie.ac.at
<mailto:tim.gru...@univie.ac.at>> wrote:
Dear Gerard,
you are wrong. 'he' in this context has as much information as
'someone' and
'person'. It does not refer to the sex of the person spoken about.
Best regards,
Tim
On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:44:47 PM CET Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote:
> >>> Sorry to have taken this matter up in such a visible
manner: I
> >>> noticed
> >>>
> >>> this very wrong formula in someone's paper, and that person
then told me
> >>> where he had found it. Having landed on that page, I didn't
know where
> >>> to go
> For the students:
>
> "someone" = systematic absence of information = 0 bits
> "person" = systematic absence of information = 0 bits
> "he" = 1 bit of information!
>
> --The other Gerard (1 bit of information!)
>
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> Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the
> radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume
> of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a !
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