Re: Ellison on Loserhood

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From: Ka-Ping Yee (ping@lfw.org)
Date: Wed Aug 16 2000 - 21:51:18 PDT

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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