Posted by dorayme on 10/10/06 21:57

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<1160488652.676055.270270@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
"techfiddle" <renaissance@australiamail.com> wrote:

> HEY!! I'm not a "he" or an "it": I'm a SHE. [See:
> http://www.geocities.com/conniesunday/ ]
>
> If someone were interested in taking violin or viola lessons,(as
> happens pretty much daily to me) how would you feel if I talked to you
> as if you were a complete, blithering idiot, lucky that I even deign to
> speak to you? Not very professional, not to mention unkind and
> counterproductive and unprofessional. (Do you get paid for what you
> do? -- I do. Substantially)
>
> Everybody can't be an expert at everything. Can you play Brahms or
> write chamber music or teach children to play an instrument? Do you
> have a broad knowledge base in western art music, art, and literature?
> Do you read several languages and do research in all of them? (I
> suspect my Finnish friend will say yes, but his writing in English is a
> bit stiff and stuffy.) You can't be a Renaissance person if you prize
> your own discipline and denigrate all the others.
>
> Connie (female person )
>
>
> Harlan Messinger wrote:
> > Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> > > Scripsit Andy Dingley:
> > >
> > >> The OP isn't claiming to be an authority on HTML,
> > >
> > > He/she/it was giving advice to others on using HTML.
> >
> > He was trying to give them a single chunk of HTML to use for a single
> > purpose, he wasn't giving them a seminar on proper HTML construction.
> > That doesn't mean it shouldn't be pointed out to him that the code isn't
> > good, but that's beside the point.


Actually, poor old Harlem was not treating you bad. She meant
only to give old Korpela a ... ahem ... small correction. And
never said you were an it.

I am an it. The only one here. Everyone else is happily a he or a
she. "He" is often and (in an old fashioned conventional English
way) meant to be strictly neutral as to the sex. But it does not
include any implication of itness. True, you are a thing, just
like everything else. But Harlem, at least, made no further
implications.

Being something, I would like to object to your thingism, what
have you got against things, why put things down so? Why
discriminate against things. I like things.

I suspect you have become disoriented (or are giving a wrong
impression) by your method of posting, best not to top post. And
understandably furious.

(btw, how much is substantial re your earnings? want to make even
more, to invest in some idea I had last night (and the night
before, and the night before that...) Absolute winners with the
right capital behind them!

:)

--
dorayme

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