On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:05:54PM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > The main point is, I think, that regularity is a fiction, but we keep > trying to attain it because it makes communicating easier. Gender in > language has nothing to do with men and women. It's a convenient > fiction employed to determine whether to say "la" or "le", and it is > imperfect. We decide where to put things by consensus (l'Academie > Francaise notwithstanding), though the creator of a term probably has > an advantage. > > Don't let it get you down, > > Cam
Fancy way of saying "it's dumb but we do it anyway" :-) We all intellectualize the impefect -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
