From: | Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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Date: | Wednesday, November 10, 1999, 11:50 |
> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 00:47:41 -0600 > From: "Jerome S. Colburn" <jscolbur@...>> Sort of like those human-shape robots in science fiction that are always > called androids even when (like those made by Mr. Harcourt Fenton Mudd) > they're gynecoid.You're reading the wrong sort of science fiction. Or perhaps I am. Anyway, I've encountered 'gynoid' as a word for artificial humans when the gender and sex were important. Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)