Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 07/06/07 16:35

Scripsit Neredbojias:

> Anyway, I suspect dorayme has a cold or something. She hasn't been
> up to her usual standards of irascibility lately. Buonasera.

Is dorayme a she? How do you know? (And please tell me why I care.)

This is yet another case against using nicknames. Anybody interested in the
sex of a well-behaving Usenaut can trivially figure it out from his or her
first name, using some minimal web browsing. Alternatively, people can jump
into conclusions, like assuming every name ending with -a to be female.

And knowing the sex _is_ essential when referring to a person when we use a
logically inferior language like the Germano-Romanic-nonsensic bastard
called "English".

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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