Re: "Gender-free masculine pronoun"? Absurd. [was: Re: Crossposting[was: Re: Traditional gender-free "he" [was: Re: "16 and 276 are 292"?No. [was: Re: Lack of vocabulary in English?]]]]

From: Charles Riggs (chriggs_at_éircom.net)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:21:21 +0000

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:46:46 -0000, "Linz" <spam@lindsayendell.co.uk>
wrote:

>
>"Matti Lamprhey" <matti@official-totally-reversed.com> wrote in
>message news:39r2mdF66jqd5U1@individual.net...
>> "Tony Cooper" <tony_cooper213@earthlink.net> wrote...
>>>
>>> If you want to discourage American tourists, be sure to include
>>> "Rats are apparently common (here) but they don't cause us any
>>> difficulties." in your brochures.
>>
>> I believe it's said that, wherever you are in Britain, there's
>> likely to be a rat within ten feet of you. I've never seen one,
>> alive or dead, in more than five decades.
>
>I found one dead on the stairs of the flat I lived in, in London.

Well, there we have it, as Laura might say. Then she might ask how
many dead or live rats you have found within ten feet of yourself
while in other parts of Britain. Matti and I need to know. 

-- 
Charles Riggs
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