Kirrily 'Skud' Robert wrote:
> I'd actually point towards reading lots as the determining factor.
> The encouragement of intellectualism and access to a decent library
> (public or school library, whatever) seems to make people think for
> themselves about this kind of thing. There's a correlati
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Michelle Peglar wrote:
> I'm personally in favour of the webadmin idea. I don't really see a need
> for gender specific language in any job title or generic name.. It's one
> of my personal soap box topics - I think we should all get rid of using
> gender specific language
At 01:57 AM 01/13/2000 GMT, you wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Emily Cartier
wrote:
>
>I'd actually point towards reading lots as the determining factor.
>The encouragement of intellectualism and access to a decent library
>(public or school library, whatever) seems to make people think
> > > > and dislike the assumptions made about Ms
> > > Such as?
> > That it is pronounced Miss,
> Really? In the US, it's pronounced "Miz." Has been for more than a century
> though there wasn't a standardised spelling for it.
I've always pronounced it "miz" as well, it seems fairly common in t
> Curiously, I've never been corrected with "thats Doctor! whoever" by anyone who's a
> doctor of something useful (medicine, hard sciences, engineering). Also I've never
Most of the people I know who are Doctors of anything other than medicine only ever
use the title to poke fun at themselves.
> > The diminutive of Mister is Master, but AFAIK it's not in common
> > usage and is age centric.
> My son has received mail addressed to "Master."
I quite like Esquire, but mainly for the fact that it is such an anachronism these
days!
> The reason for this is that, traditionally, a woman com
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Ian Phillips wrote:
> > Curiously, I've never been corrected with "thats Doctor! whoever" by
> > anyone who's a doctor of something useful (medicine, hard sciences,
> > engineering). Also I've never
>
> Most of the people I know who are Doctors of anything other than
> medi
Ian Phillips wrote:
> I'm not sure about that. I though that women traditionally "came of age" > when they
>where considered old enough to marry, usually between 12 and 15 > years. I suspect
>that the idea that a woman "comes of age" once she has > married arose around the
>same time as the wh
At 02:22 PM 1/13/00 -0500, Sunnan wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Michelle Peglar wrote:
> > of my personal soap box topics - I think we should all get rid of using
> > gender specific language when referring to something or someone that could
> > possibly be male or female.
>
>I disagree - imagine
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:27:10 -, "Ian Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I quite like Esquire, but mainly for the fact that it is such an
>anachronism these days!
"Esquire", these days, means you're an attorney.
Kelly
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Title: RE: [issues] Re: Demographics - Reprise
> -Original Message-
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> Subject: RE: [issues] Re: Demographics - Reprise
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> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Michelle Peglar wrote:
> >
Sunnanvind wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Michelle Peglar wrote:
> > I'm personally in favour of the webadmin idea. I don't really see a need
> > for gender specific language in any job title or generic name.. It's one
> > of my personal soap box topics - I think we should all get rid of usin
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>
> Hmm. I could be wrong, but I think one person is talking about CVs
> (curriculum vitae) and another is talking about CVS (Concurrent Versions
> System). CVs are what we in the U.S. call resumes (imagine accents in the
> apporpriate places). CVS is a source control/c
On 13 Jan 2000, Kirrily 'Skud' Robert wrote:
> Speaking of websites, I used to be "webmaster" for an ISP. I asked my
> boss permission to set up aliases for either "webadmin" or "webmistress"
> and use them, but was told that I wasn't to do it. So I ended up
> getting an awful lot of webmaster
On this topic of -ess endings, interestingly enough Miss Manners had
something to say about it in her most recent column. I actually agree
with some of her points -- what do you all think?
http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/12/146l-011200-idx.html
I mean, isn't taking the m
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> On 13 Jan 2000, Kirrily 'Skud' Robert wrote:
>
> > Speaking of websites, I used to be "webmaster" for an ISP. I asked my
> > boss permission to set up aliases for either "webadmin" or "webmistress"
> > and use them, but was told that I wasn't to do
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Cat wrote:
> I mean, isn't taking the male word as the neuter word doing the
> same thing as using mankind vs humankind? I personally dislike the fact
> that 'he' and 'his' are supposed to be used when referring to a possible
> person of either gender. I really enjoyed my op
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Michelle Peglar wrote:
> So anyway, I think just drop the -ess words. A woman or a man - the person
> is still a priest. Or an actor. Or a waiter. Or a firefighter. Or a
> doctor. Or a nurse. Hey that brings up another point. There are no
> Doctoress'! I wonder why no
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Sunnanvind wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Cat wrote:
> > I mean, isn't taking the male word as the neuter word doing the
> > same thing as using mankind vs humankind? I personally dislike the fact
> > that 'he' and 'his' are supposed to be used when referring to a possible
>
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 03:26:40 +0100, Sunnanvind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Most women nowadays never weres dresses anymore, but it can be
>confortable sometimes. I'd rather have people of both sexes wear
>dresses than having it banned altogether.
Men's clothing is so _boring_. A dress every now
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:53:42 -0500 (EST), Cat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Just a quick clarification -- in my operating systems course, every
>reference *in our textbook* was she and her. Oops!
Several textbook authors have gone to this, or to alternating between
male and female pronouns. I hav
Can anyone help this guy out?
Pit Schultz wrote:
>
> dear deb,
>
> maybe you can help me.
>
> i am organizing a thread of a linux conference
> at the zkm, karlsruhe germany at the end of march.
> it's the social-political-cultural part. of course
> there are lots of men in this business but i
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