Re: Ellison on Loserhood

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From: Jeff Bone (jbone@jump.net)
Date: Wed Aug 16 2000 - 22:30:33 PDT


Oh, god, did I forget the smiley again? Bad, BAD Jeff. No milk and
Oreos for me tonite!

jb

Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Jeff Bone wrote:
> >
> > I refuse to treat seriously any English document where the author
> > uses ridiculous gender neutral pronouns, i.e. "God" as "Verself."
>
> I refuse to treat seriously any German document where the author
> uses ridiculous gendered nouns and adjectives, such as masculine,
> feminine, and neuter forms.
>
> I refuse to treat seriously any Chinese document where the author
> uses ridiculous ideographic symbols from a repertoire of thousands
> upon thousands of characters.
>
> etc. etc.
>
> -- ?!ng


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