Re: Gender

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>
> > Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Mike Adams wrote:
> > >
> > > > Sort of like the Wofir hypotesis? I know English still has some gender
> > > > usage, but we seem to have been loosing it over time. It maybe part of
> > > > our international flavor and popularity?
>
> > Mike:  for the sake of us all, please please *please* quote what you're
> > referring to, and cut out with the jargon! It makes you very difficult
> > to read and interpret.
>
> Agreed on the quoting part, at least.  If it's jargon I figure it's
> something I haven't learned yet.  :-/
No, be comforted!  Tom is referring to Mike Adams's peculiar style, I think, like
his use of "lingo" for "language" and his habit of writing in oblique sentence
fragments.

We've asked him repeatedly to quote the material he's referring to, and he never
does.  I can only conclude that he's not interested in engaging in a dialogue
with anyone else on the list, but is content merely to add cryptic footnotes to
other people's discussions.  To each his own...

Matt.