Scheme - way off topic (was Re: evaluation order question)

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way off topic (was Re: evaluation order question)

Sunnan

2005-02-28, 9:00 pm

Adrian Kubala wrote:
>
> Wow; I, like Arctic Fidelity, would have assumed with my
> English-speaking (and CS) prejudices that Sunnan was a male name. One
> learns something new everyday! Still, since English doesn't have a good
> gender-neutral pronoun, it seems unfair to expect everyone to undergo
> linguistic contortions just to avoid assigning you a gender.

I know, and just gender-neutral pronouns seems clumsy for a
lojban-speaker where you have the goi ko'a mechanism to avoid confusion.

Speaking of names; I didn't think that Arctic Fidelity necessarily was a
male name.

I'm sorry, this is silly; I'm just frustrated with this topic and I'm
frustrated with English.

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