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From: | Karlin High |
Subject: | Re: [OT] Grammatic gender |
Date: | Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:57:40 -0600 |
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On 11/17/2017 11:43 AM, Wol's lists wrote:
If you don't, you get into the Humpty Dumpty world of "words mean what I say they mean" and you can't understand what someone else is saying
https://xkcd.com/1860/
it's like people saying "computer memory" when they mean the hard disk...
Or my elderly tech support client who refers to all forms of email as "Outlook Express."
-- Karlin High Missouri, USA
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