Posted by Luigi Donatello Asero on 12/18/05 01:31

"Neredbojias" <invalid@neredbojias.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:MPG.1e0dad6df901b0b0989724@news.isp.com...
> With neither quill nor qualm, Luigi Donatello Asero quothed:


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> > How should you actually know whether another person who is writing
online is
> > a woman or a man....if this person has not identified himself or
herself?
>
> It's possible and even easy - with a 90%+ success rate. Little clues in
> the lingo and dialogue are enough to indicate whether the perp is a
> sheila or a heila. For instance, I knew you were a guy right away.
> Even a woman balsy enough to fake being a man probably wouldn't assume
> the name "Luigi Donatello Asero" as a pseudonym.


I do not agree. Women tend to use another language when they speak but it
would be quite easy for them to change the style when they write, if they
want to because they have time to do that.

> > > > To me it can be either a man or a woman or a martian....
> > >
> > > You're very easy to please.
> >
> >
> > It probably depends on whom you ask......
> > but what I meant by writing "To me it can be either a man or a woman or
a
> > martian...."
> > is that in the end I am not so interested to know whether someone who
> > writes in a NG is a woman or a man or a Martian...
> > and especially if someone does not want to say that....
> > such things are interesting under different circumstances...
>
> Yep, it's hard to appreciate the naked body in text. And now that I
> think about it, that's undoubtedly why programs like "Lynx" are most-
> praised by para-emotive tight-asses.

I see a difference between meeting people in person and not doing that.
Perhaps you do not.


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Luigi Donatello Asero
https://www.scaiecat-spa-gigi.com

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