Re: ASCII convention

Lee Sau Dan wrote:
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> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Peter> Peter Daniels is not interested in coding. Peter Daniels is
> Peter> talking about the fonts on desktop computers -- the fonts
> Peter> that ordinary scholars, not up-to-the-minute tech gurus
> Peter> like yourself, use in preparing their scholarly
> Peter> manuscripts. If any portion of the "coding" process is
> Peter> visible to the end user, then the coding process is a
> Peter> failure. Just as no one using a typewriter needed to know
> Peter> anything about its innards other than changing the ribbon
> Peter> (though presumably they had their secretary do that).
> >> Why do you need to care about typing if you've got a decent
> >> secretary? And what if your secretary needs to change the
> >> ribbon? Does he have a secretary of his own to do it for him?
>
> Peter> There were almost no male secretaries in the days of
> Peter> typewriter ribbons.
>
> I thought "he" was a gender-neutral pronoun.

Where'd you get that idea?

> Peter> And there are almost no secretaries at all today; there are
> Peter> "assistants" and "administrative assistants" and such --
> Peter> perhaps because "secretary" had become perceived as a
> Peter> menial title, unsuited to male workers.
>
> Then, why are you talking about it?

Because you referred to "a decent secretary."

> Peter> And scholars don't often have secretaries of any kind.
>
> Really? Who does all the documentary work for you?

Hunh? What's that?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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