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On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:49:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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should be |
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> referred to using the neuter form of pronouns, i.e. "it", as befitting |
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> their overall contribution to humanity. |
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> You see what I did there? You see how I recovered with a witty reposte |
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> without even blinking an eye? It takes nerves of steel and much |
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> practise to pull that one off, I tell you! |
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> Let's see how long it takes Neil to find the grammar errors in that |
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> lot :-) |
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Well, since you asked... |
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> All objects of technology (aka stuff what we work on), |
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Stuff WHAT we work on? |
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> Users, n00bs, marketing persons, hairdressers, telephone handset |
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> sanitizers and other assorted riff-raff of the human species |
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Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer, so that should be |
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telephone sanitiser - but that's nit-picking, even form me :) |
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Oh, and it should be grammatical errors :P |
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Neil Bothwick |
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I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem. |
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