[ExI] Online social groups.

spike spike66 at att.net
Sat Nov 15 00:48:52 UTC 2008


 

> ...On Behalf Of 
> Damien Broderick
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Online social groups.
> 
> At 01:57 PM 11/14/2008 -0800, spike wrote:
> 
> >Surely the creator of xkcd is a fellow bestrider.  Hers is 
> the funniest 
> >comic strip ever.  Compared to her, I am merely a goodrider or 
> >fairider.
> 
> Randall Patrick Munroe has had a sex change? Cool.


Not that I know of.  When I say she or her I mean he or she and him or her.
I feel this was a mistake the inventors of the English language made up
front, and we have carried it.  Now is the time to correct that.  Since I
didn't know, I used the ambiguous gender her.

spike








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