[Klug-general] Gentoo ... hmmm more Cows

[David Halliday]

Duck? I thought we were talking about cows?

On 29 January 2011 11:01, Michael E. Rentell
<michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>wrote:

>
> On 28/01/11 22:26, Mike Evans wrote:
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>> On 28/01/11 21:22, Margot wrote:
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>>> Not sure I'd trust any OS (or anything else) that refers to a cow as
>>> 'he'!
>>>
>>>
>> That depends on whether you think Gender is a binary or free-from
>> attribute, and whether you think it is mutable or immutable :)
>>
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>>  Speaking as a retired linguist, and (my wife says) a confirmed Victor
> Meldrew, can I (safely?) comment that the word gender is frequently misused
> these days - particularly by the politically correct.
>
> The word you want is sex which differentiates betwixt male and female.
>
> Gender is a grammatical term to differentiate betwixt masculine, feminine
> and neuter in linguistics.
>
> Should I now duck?
>
> MikeR
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