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Re: CHAT: Homo Sapiens (was: fiery spirits)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, October 23, 2003, 11:05
Nik Taylor scripsit:

> > Woman unambiguously fits the bill, doesn't it? Perhaps I've misunderstood > > Ray's post or something. > > Woman is "*adult* female person".
There's a cartoon of a kid standing on a chair to use a public telephone; the background is obviously a hospital's maternity waiting room. The caption: "It's a woman! An infant woman!" -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague." --Edsger Dijkstra