From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2009-02-11T06:19:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs Perl performance

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On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:23:15AM +0900, Nico Bonada wrote:
> William James wrote:
> >=20
> > "one" is singular, so it's "best meets his".
> >=20
>=20
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Generic_they

  it is unacceptable to a great many readers either to resort to
  nontraditional gimmicks to avoid the generic masculine (by using he/she
  or s/he, for example) or to use they as a kind of singular pronoun.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Singular_they

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Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
from an MS Access tutorial manual: "Programmatically is a Microsoft
euphemism for 'with many lines of code.'"

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