Re: probably a bloody obvious question...
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 20, 2000, 22:51 |
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On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 06:32:19PM -0400, Padraic Brown wrote:
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> Bugger. You know, when I was writing that, a suspicious little part
> of my mind said "You know, that might just be a woman you're writing
> to!" Alas for our text only medium! Well, same thing happens to me;
> as it's an uncommon name to most English speakers.
Mistakes like this are what prompted me to invent the "ambiguous" (now
known as "epicene") gender in my conlang. If we were speaking my conlang,
you could've just use "person[epicene] of many talents" and it would've
worked either way. :-)
Sorry, this is just a shameless self-plug for my conlang... :-P
T