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Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Indi did opine |
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thusly: |
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> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:10:02AM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic |
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> > > Alan, but something held me back. Lucky it went that way, he later |
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> > > posted he read 1667MHZ as 167MHz. |
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> > > Amazing what a difference a "1" can make :-) |
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> > Not nearly as much as a "6" :P |
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> Or an "s"*. |
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> :) |
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You're speaking to a grumpy old fart combined language git, who not only |
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studied English first language at length but an entire 5 year high school |
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career in Latin as well. This makes me eminently qualified to opine thusly: |
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All persons working in technology fields necessarily display masculine |
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attributes, hence shall be uniformly referred to by the male form of pronouns, |
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i.e. all techies are addressed as "he". The female form is not incorrect, but |
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discouraged. |
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All objects of technology (aka stuff what we work on), due to the peculiar |
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interaction shown to them by techies, shall be uniformly referred to by means |
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of the female form of pronouns. Vehicles and computers are especially to be |
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referred to using the "she" form. Motorcycles triply so. |
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Users, n00bs, marketing persons, hairdressers, telephone handset sanitizers |
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and other assorted riff-raff of the human species should be referred to using |
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the neuter form of pronouns, i.e. "it", as befitting their overall |
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contribution to humanity. |
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You see what I did there? You see how I recovered with a witty reposte without |
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even blinking an eye? It takes nerves of steel and much practise to pull that |
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one off, I tell you! |
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Let's see how long it takes Neil to find the grammar errors in that lot :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |