Re: verb gender

António Marques wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> >>> "Anytime an animal shortens out power at a substation, we offer
> >>> our condolences to the animal," he said.
> >>>
> >>> which has to have been edited by a woman.
>
> 'Has to have'? You talk like dat?

Nothing wrong with that. Quite different from "must have been."

> >> Explain yourself.
> >
> > I think he thinks a man couldn't possibly have said "shortens out"
> > for "shorts out," (...)
>
> Why, for the benefit of the english-impaired?

Eh?

> >> On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
> >
> > Yet he proves it every day.
>
> Risking offending any unnoticed exception, no interesting threads
> began while you were away. OTOH, you managed to miss the oh so
> tiresome discussion on Uralic.

Oh, it was still here in all its glory.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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