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Re: Gender

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 27, 1998, 0:39
Steg Belsky wrote:
> Hmm...i never thought about that. But i doubt that a corpse would be put > in the neuter category, since all it is is a person who is > "life-impaired" as the joke goes - and people (except for artificial > androids, etc.) can't be of the neuter gender.
Well, it seems natural to me (since a corpse *is* inanimate), but to each his own, I suppose. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files ICQ: 18656696 AOL: NikTailor