[lit-ideas] Re: Tuesday Joke
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:27:51 +0900
Ah, intelligible discourse implies "her" (sounds about right to me).
John
On 3/7/07, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Makes her a loose proton....
>
> Why "her" by the way?
PC-prounoun-speak.
If something is engaged in intelligible discourse it belongs to one
sex or the other (to put it way too simply). These atoms are engaged
in intelligible discourse and so must be gendered accordingly.
Robert Paul
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