On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 07:03 pm, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Who is the father of ExampleClass1 ?
>
> No-one, since classes do not have gender. (The convention is to use the
> gender-neutral “parent” to refer to that relationship.)
Possibly not the case in Russia. Besides, words have gender in many languages.
While I have no problem with correcting people's English when it is relevant,
there's a good way and a bad way to do it.
Good way:
Foreigner speaking English as their second language:
"Who is the father of this class?"
Native English speaker:
"The father is 'object', but in English we would normally
ask 'what is the parent?' instead."
Bad way:
Foreigner:
"Who is the father of this class?"
Native:
"No one, you ignorant heathen foreigner!"
Worse way:
Foreigner:
"Who is the father of this class?"
Native:
*PLONK*
I'll leave you to guess where I think your response fits in this scale :-)
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