Re: verb gender

Ron Hardin wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > > You could cruise over to sci.math or sci.physics, and I bet (haven't
> > > looked recently) out of the last thousand posts, there are zero women.
> >
> > The number of women posters to sci.lang approaches zero, yet the
> > profession of linguistics is about 50% female -- probably because it's a
> > quite recent profession and never grew any gender stereotypes.
>
> I'd say it's because it's a soft science and involves communication;
> you don't have to give up a social life to study communication.

You really do have a problem with interpreting written English.

My point was that newsgroup participation tells you absolutely nothing
about gender participation in the fields.

> Erving Goffman (sociologist) was reported to be hell to go out to dinner
> with, because he was always running social gaffe experiments.
>
> Women linguists not wanting, ie. needing, to settle stuff is why
> they don't post. A guy, given the slightest deviation from his
> world view, has got to jump in and correct things.

Do you simply ignore all the non-sci.lang postings that leak in here,
showing that women can be as deviant as yourself, and more so?

> To settle things in math, at top levels, you do have to give up a social
> life, which is why women who made it that far drop out. That's the point
> of the Rota quote. In linguistics, you don't.
>
> Indeed my favorite linguists apparently have a swell social life.

You know (of) enough linguists to have favorites?? You clearly have
never learned any linguistics from them ...

> --
> Ron Hardin
> rhhardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

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