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You go girl. And I mean that regardless of actual gender. 1967 Listener 15 June 793/2 "What I love about newspapers is their etaoin shrdl." OED Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services Computing Center University of Oregon [email protected] (541) 346-1774/Cell: 912-7998 On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > You mean to say that you wasted everyone's time (although I suspect that > many already filter you out, with cause) and energy to spout this nonsense? > I had to go back and find what on earth the "degenerate linguistic usage > elided" referred to. As you can see, I figured it out. I apologize ahead of > time to Susan, to save her the private scolding that otherwise would almost > certainly be headed my way. > > That said, you sir, are a fool. > > "Dr. Jeffrey Race" wrote: > > > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:58:50 -0500, Vivien M. wrote: > > >I wonder if perhaps a solution would be doing something I saw a gentleman > > >from China, IIRC, do on this list quite a while ago. He had added (Mr.) > > to > > >his .sig to make it easy for people to figure out his gender. Perhaps > > this > > >would be an easyish way to somewhat-subtly warn people of the correct > > >gender? > > > > Female personal-status-specific honorifics (Miss, Mrs.) used > > to be essential elements of any signature block, at least for written > > correspondence, in the days when persons honored one another. Lack > > of such an honorific implied not female. Now it's just 'Hi $first_name'. > > I'm glad I'm on the way out. > > Puh-leeze. Does this mean that anyone female ought to let you know ahead of > time, because otherwise they're male? Perhaps you are implying that the > first name basis of some folk is offensive to you (trust me, if the phrase > "this sucks" is offensive to you, you don't want to hang out in a router > room). > > Maybe I misunderstand. Perhaps you mean that we should all put our > important titles and other status-signifying characteristics in our > "signature blocks" so that everyone will know how important we are (or > not). I know some Ph.D. folk, but unlike you, they don't consider it an > integral part of their name (except Dr. Mudge, but that's another story, > and it's over anyway). > > Oh, I could go on, but I won't. How's this for "degenerate linguistic > usage?" > > *plonk* > > -- > Traceroute is a disconcertingly blunt hammer; that we continue > to use it to essentially nail moving jello to a wall says more > about us than about anything on the Internet. > k claffy (at 8:43 -0700 10/17/02 on NANOG) >
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