Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 24
From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 15:44 |
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:28:45PM +0000, Stephen Mulraney wrote:
[snip]
> I've gotten quite used to switching my mental image of online people
> from male to female, or vice versa [though not from human to canine],
> whenever a clue as to gender arises. But I honestly was convinced that
> I'd come across a strong "H. S. Teoh is female" clue. Very odd. I wonder
> what it was. I usually assume that indeterminately-gendered names belong
> to males (unfair, but appropriate in this, as in many, online fora),
> unless there is some evidence to the contrary. Sorry, Teoh :)
[snip]
I have been (gasp!) deleting 90% of CONLANG emails I get, mostly 'cos I
really don't have the time and energy to sift through it all; so I must've
missed any alleged references to me being female. Though I thought that my
consistent use of _ebi'_ in my Ebisedian snippets would've dropped enough
hints to the contrary. :-)
T
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