oh. my. god. what a thread! biggest. tangent. ever.
On 6/1/07, J Messeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I knew Strunk's wife when I lived in Maine. > No, wait a minute -- that was Jud's wife I knew. > > Jeffrey Kaplan wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:41:36 -0400 Craig Froehle said: > > > > > >> On 6/1/07, Jeffrey Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:29:00 -0500 Alli said: > >>> What if I don't know the person is a "he"? > >>> > >> Doesn't matter. If unknown or known to be a male, use "his." > >> > >> Strunk & White know all. > >> > > > > Strunk & White is also quite old. It was old when I was in high school > > 25 years ago. Some aspects of language do change, and English has > > pretty much always been fluid. > > > > > > -- > > /The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless -- to us -- if we > know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us > whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of > chow mein. We grieve only for what we know./ > A Sand County Almanac, /Aldo Leopold, July 1949/ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- ============================== War Eagle
