Guns, trucks, until recently- hurricanes whales...thar she blows On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:07:01 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>AFAIK, only ships are referred to as women. Everything else is gender >neutral. > >On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, m.w.chang wrote: > >> I learnt my english while Hongkong was still a british colony (ok, >she's> called United Kingdoms now). You sure that it's "its" not "her"? >Is that> how United Nations described other nations? >> >> > And, finally, while I'm ranting, the proper pronoun is "its," not >> > "her." As in, "Then every government can design *its* own security >> > schemes around the kernel." >> > >> > Kurt >> >> > >-- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com > >_______________________________________________ >Linux-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> >http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
