On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Cat wrote:
>
> 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/2000-01/12/146
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:49:54 +0100 (CET), Nils Philippsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>So what would you like? "Its" wouldn't be nice to both genders, I
>suppose. But inventing a "fourth" gender which means both real
>genders isn't feasible, too? You would confuse us non-native English
>speakers
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Cat wrote:
> So what would you like? "Its" wouldn't be nice to both genders, I suppose.
> But inventing a "fourth" gender which means both real genders isn't
> feasible, too? You would confuse us non-native English speakers and we'
At 12:49 AM 01/14/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>
>So what would you like? "Its" wouldn't be nice to both genders, I suppose.
>But inventing a "fourth" gender which means both real genders isn't
>feasible, too? You would confuse us non-native English speakers and we'd
>probably turn to Esperanto instead
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Janus wrote:
> At 12:49 AM 01/14/2000 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> >So what would you like? "Its" wouldn't be nice to both genders, I suppose.
> >But inventing a "fourth" gender which means both real genders isn't
> >feasible, too? You would confuse us non-native English speakers
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From: Kelly Lynn Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [issues] Re: Demographics - Reprise
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 03:26:40 +0100, Sunnanvind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
>
> >Most women nowadays never we
> > >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 and then would liven
> > things up, methinks.
>
> As
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> Unlikely to succeed. Can you imagine a style here> song in Latin? Probably not.
Mmm, hey, I can (Cranberries 'Electric Blue' is partially in latin) - but I
still don't think that the plan will succeed - I do think English is a
beautiful language (my
