[ExI] Putting a face with the name

[William Flynn Wallace]

Speaking of gender-specific, and for you, Spike (parentheses), I offer the
following, perhaps the best thing, in my considered opinion, that Twain
wrote.  If you know some German it is probably even better:

https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html

bill w

On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 9:59 AM Spike Jones <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Putting a face with the name
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> Which might lead some to ask the snarky question: Where do you waste
> > time then? ;)
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> I could care less. :P
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> An odddity in the English language (meaning the people who use it), where
> two opposite statements are taken by many to mean the same thing:  'could
> care less', 'could not care less'
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> BillW, regarding language oddities, it occurred to me that
> Spanish-speakers could gender-neutralize their language by borrowing the
> English article “the” to substitute for their gender-specific (and
> therefore outdated) terms la and el.  The follow-through whacks off the
> gender-specific trailing a and o, along with any other suspicious-looking
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> The Spanish phrase for inviting a friend into your house, “entre la casa
> mi amigo” becomes “entre the cas mi amig.”
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