Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:32:40PM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
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> OC, I've had a couple people on this list and elsewhere mistake me for
> male, even with the emotes.  Who knows?  =^)
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Honest confession: when I first saw your name on this list, the first
impression that came across was "this is a guy". The fact that I know a
Korean guy elsewhere who's also called "Yoon" doesn't help. But, being the
*ahem* cautious person that I am, I silently stayed away from deciding one
way or the other, and after observing the tone of your posts (and of
course, the emotes), I started to doubt my initial hypothesis. Then, one
fine day, I came across the line "YHL, wishing she were actually fluent"
and I said to myself, Aha! so it *was* a female :-)

(And of course, I was grateful that I didn't jump the gun and address you
as a guy ... the wonders of ambiguity in written language -- I avoid
pronouns (since in English they have gender) like the plague until I'm
sure whether the other party is male or female. But this is almost
impossible in spoken conversation.)


T