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On Fri, 10 Jun 2022 16:58:00 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >And Madchen is neuter. > Like all diminutives. Mark Twain remarked on that. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to li

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AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") German has 3 genders. Der, die, das. (Masculine, feminine, neuter) Plus, some nouns you’d expect to be neuter are not. Der Wagon (car) for instance. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, June 10,

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German has 3 genders. Der, die, das. (Masculine, feminine, neuter) Plus, some nouns you’d expect to be neuter are not. Der Wagon (car) for instance. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, June 10, 2022, 10:36 AM, zMan wrote: Glad to see this has stayed on topic. /s On Fri, Jun 10, 2022

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Glad to see this has stayed on topic. /s On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:02 AM Mohammad Khan wrote: > I guess the yearning is for something like Persian which mostly disregards > gender. Its third person singular pronoun "oo" ( pronounced like too > without t) covers he, she and it. It even uses bor

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I guess the yearning is for something like Persian which mostly disregards gender. Its third person singular pronoun "oo" ( pronounced like too without t) covers he, she and it. It even uses borrowed Arabic words, which are gender specific in the original, for all genders. MKK On Thu, 9 Jun

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Not sure where it is now, but I once had a really nice Spanish-English dictionary in which an impressive number of entries gave an impressive number of alternate meanings for the word depending on the country you're in. Likewise the English-Spanish portion gave various Spanish words to translate t

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id Spiegel [dspiegel...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 6:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") Hi R'Shmuel AMV"SH, It's a good thing that טומטום and אנררוגינוס were not introduced into this discussion. That might really

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on.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 8:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX"

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2 9:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") I'll likely regret becoming involved in this, but... I once was speaking to a woman about the practices of another family, and said "Well, that is the culture he grew up in". Sh

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I'll likely regret becoming involved in this, but... I once was speaking to a woman about the practices of another family, and said "Well, that is the culture he grew up in".   She said "No, I wasn't raised that way".  Both families are Vietnamese.  I replied that I was using the term 'culture

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I suppose every culture has its rules about this. As a completely off-topic side note, some years ago at a gig in New Jersey I was chatting after hours with a Hispanic cleaning lady, and I mentioned something I had done as a child. To indicate my approximate age as I said "child", I patted an

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"every child has their " should be "every child has its " - as "child" is animate but is also gender neuter (regardless of political correctness and woke culture.) On 09/06/2022 23:26, Bob Bridges wrote: > That's mostly true. But that's the neuter gender, which in English we apply > mostly to ina

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It's commonly done that way, nowadays. Heck, I've done it myself, in casual speech. But I'm enough to remember that it isn't "proper", grammatically speaking, though it certainly isn't improper socially speaking. And grammar is what we're talking about here, no? Or maybe not. --- Bob Bridge

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"They" is properly singular when the singular referent is of unknown or irrelevant gender? > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Bob Bridges > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2022 3:30 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subjec

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Pronouns, grammatically speaking, ~should~ agree with their referent, which is why "they" (which is plural) is grammatically incorrect when used with "every person" (which is singular). Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one. (Yeah, so I'm a die-hard - so sue me.) --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid..

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I want, I don't wants > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2022 2:45 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") > > [EXTERNA

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That's mostly true. But that's the neuter gender, which in English we apply mostly to inanimate objects. Not exclusively, though. Pet owners usually say "he" or "she" of their mammals, but we usually say "it" of an animal whose sex we don't know or don't care about ("it bit me!"). Some inanimat

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List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 3:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") Wait a moment, Shmuel: English still has the neuter. In fact ~most~ of our nouns are n

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22 5:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") IN this case, "wants" is an improper plural. "They" is referring to "person" which in this context ir a single individual, even if reference in the collective... &

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artin > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2022 2:13 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize > the sender and know the content is safe. > > On Thu, 9

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On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 16:44:59 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: >Sure: "They". Is that what you meant? > Pronouns agree in number with their antecedents, so not plural. >-Original Message- >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 16:10 >> >Ok. Example: "Every person does what they w

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of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 3:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") I know you're being facetious, but it happens I ~like~ the subjunctive. At least, I do now that I understand it. I wa

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Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 3:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") Wait a moment, Shmuel: English still has the neuter. In fact

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Sure: "They". Is that what you meant? --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of i

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On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 15:55:45 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: >I don't mind alternating "he" and "she" in both speech and writing, but I >decline to use a plural noun with a singular word. Except when I forget, of >course. > Ok. Example: "Every person does what they wants to." Do you see anything pl

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I don't mind alternating "he" and "she" in both speech and writing, but I decline to use a plural noun with a singular word. Except when I forget, of course. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* If you can persuade your customer to tattoo your name on their chest, they

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Wait a moment, Shmuel: English still has the neuter. In fact ~most~ of our nouns are neuter, barring only a few exceptions, unlike the Romance languages which have only masculine and feminine. In English, almost every non-human noun and a handful of human ones are "it". What did you mean to say

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I know you're being facetious, but it happens I ~like~ the subjunctive. At least, I do now that I understand it. I was barely exposed to it in English, and when they tried to teach it to me in French class it didn't take. It wasn't until I studied classical Greek in college that I finally got

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t: Thursday, June 9, 2022 12:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 15:43:31 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: The Devil is in the details. The cases that you mention are not analogous. Now, I could make a case that we would

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_ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 12:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 15:43:31

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, tampering, amendment or viruses or any consequence thereof. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Abell Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2022 12:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or &qu

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On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 15:43:31 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >The Devil is in the details. The cases that you mention are not analogous. > >Now, I could make a case that we would be better off had we retained the >neuter gender. But most of what you mentioned doesn't represent an obvious >loss of cl

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, tampering, amendment or viruses or any consequence thereof. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2022 11:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ] Re: "A Rexx&qu

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hmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bill Ogden [og...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 10:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: ] Re: "A Rexx&qu

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>This abuse of latin-derived plurals leads to such obsenities as "piece of >data" where "datum" would suffice and "medias". >"Why can't the English learn to speak?";was that in Pygmalian, or added for My >Fair Lady? Good point, but why restrict it to a few Latin words. Much of English was deba

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sday, June 8, 2022 1:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") BAT has IF (and other features) now. I did say "the old" DOS. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* A man is never so proud as when striking an attitu

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BAT has IF (and other features) now. I did say "the old" DOS. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility. -from "Christianity and Culture" by C S Lewis */ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussio

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Yes, and "mic". And "perq" not "perk" (it's short for "perquisite"). Not sure I've ever written "nuc", though, come to think of it. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until the voters discov

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2 10:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") Dunno whether I'm right, but I associate "script" with "macro", both of which (still in my own head) I think of as a list of commands without logic branches. Like the old

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Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 10:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") Shmuel says it differently but I think he and I agree. I valu

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On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 11:14:52 -0400, Gord Tomlin wrote: > >You could probably ask the same tall foreheads that thought it was >vitally important to change DB2 to Db2. > But please don't confuse zFS and ZFS. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN

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On 2022-06-08 07:05 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: I generally say "a REXX script". If you want to be PC, make that "a Rexx script", and, no, I don't know why the case changed. You could probably ask the same tall foreheads that thought it was vitally important to change DB2 to Db2. -- Regards,

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LOL, I never noticed that one. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both. */ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Shaw Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 07:59 The phrase that rankles m

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Shmuel says it differently but I think he and I agree. I value clarity in writing, and therefore I like words that make distinctions clear. I adopted "whom" once I understood it. I use "datum" (and also "criterion", "bacterium" and the like). I eventually learned the difference between "compose

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Dunno whether I'm right, but I associate "script" with "macro", both of which (still in my own head) I think of as a list of commands without logic branches. Like the old PC DOS batch files: Do this, then do this, then do this... Or QMF (unless QMF has added IF statements since I last used it)

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y, June 8, 2022 9:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") I'm sorry, guys, but I write a REXX (or an exec) all the time. I'd never heard before that this is cringe-worthy. And yes, now that I think about it, I used to wr

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No!! Or, actually, yes, but only if it was commonly enough used by the time I first heard the term that I got used to it. If you try to change it after that, it's too late. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Many people struggle to learn how to pray because they are fo

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I'm sorry, guys, but I write a REXX (or an exec) all the time. I'd never heard before that this is cringe-worthy. And yes, now that I think about it, I used to write a CLIST, so it probably transferred. I never write a PL/1 or a VBA. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /*

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e Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 11:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") Yes, I believe in the military one soldier is indeed considered one troop. It's only civilians who use "troop&q

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Thinking back, in the MVS/XA and /ESA days in UK I started with "a Rexx exec" (yes, under TSO/E :-) ) or "a Rexx program", but not "a Rexx" because it sounded ugly. "Rexx script" turned up less often. Pretty soon people started assuming Rexx for almost anything interpreted, and not mentioning it b

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hether it existed in any VM shop. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Mark Pace [pacemainl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 7:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LIST

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The phrase that rankles me is "software program". Isn't software always a program? Can you have software without it being a program? Why not just say "software"? Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, 10:53 PM Tom Brennan wrote: > I heard that one on a radi

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ssion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Nash, Jonathan S. [01abdcef2f3c-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 7:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") Yes but we arent Romans so I think its a

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Long time VMer - I've always said "A Rexx Exec". Not sure why I don't like the term script. On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 5:59 PM Phil Smith III wrote: > NOT interested in arguing about what’s “correct”, just curious about > possible theories here. > > > > I started using Rexx (then REXX) on CMS (VM/S

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: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") This abuse of latin-derived plurals leads to such obsenities as "piece of data" where "datum" would suffice and "medias". "Why can't the English learn to speak?&quo

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@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David Spiegel [dspiegel...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 7:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") Hi R'Shmuel AMV"SH, I've been hearing "an Exec" (referring to VM) since 1982. One has to k

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@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") Hi R'Shmuel AMV"SH, *obscenities Regards, David On 2022-06-08 06:35, Seymour J Metz wrote: > This abuse of latin-derived plurals leads to such obsenities as "piece of > data" where "datum"

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haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=mONKlwBSE1qRE7uF9h0dpUnqQsJeOuduNgxeQXvfNXg%3D&reserved=0 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Gord Tomlin [gt.ibm.li...@actionsoftware.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 6:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subj

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While "an EXEC" is quaint, albeit universal, "a CLIST" is "a command list", and perfectly reasonable. I must confess that I also say "an EXEC" I generally say "a REXX script". If you want to be PC, make that "a Rexx script", and, no, I don't know why the case changed. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Me

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? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Gord Tomlin [gt.ibm.li...@actionsoftware.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 6:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "A

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SERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 8:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") As a Christian I'm prejudiced in favor of Jews, so I can say "a Jew" without embarrassment. But I

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of Tom Brennan [t...@tombrennansoftware.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 10:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") I heard that one on a radio advertisement the other day, something like, "All your payroll needs in a single software.

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Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Tom Brennan [t...@tombrennansoftware.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 10:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REX

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Yes, I believe in the military one soldier is indeed considered one troop. It's only civilians who use "troop" to mean "a lot". Come to think of it, maybe it's only civilians who use the term "a troop of soldiers". (Of course, I may be wrong. It's already June; I'm ahead of my quota, so I can

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On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 19:53:44 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: >I heard that one on a radio advertisement the other day, something like, >"All your payroll needs in a single software." >Hurts my ears :) > >https://www.paycom.com/learn-more/why-paycom/ > They do that purposely:

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I heard that one on a radio advertisement the other day, something like, "All your payroll needs in a single software." Hurts my ears :) https://www.paycom.com/learn-more/why-paycom/ On 6/7/2022 3:17 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote: A related pet peeve: "a software". Nobody but nobody says "a hardware"

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As a Christian I'm prejudiced in favor of Jews, so I can say "a Jew" without embarrassment. But I think the hesitation otherwise must be due to the fact that "Jew" has so often and for so long been intended, in some mouths, as a term of contempt. As a result, perfectly innocent people hesitate

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On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 17:58:52 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > >Meanwhile, in TSO there was CLIST, and people said “A CLIST”. Nobody (I >think?) said “A CLIST program”. Then Rexx came to TSO and people there often >say “A Rexx”. Which is perfectly reasonable, and parallel to the three >predecessor

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Heh, heh...but in Britain, at least, they sometimes say "an equipment", which strikes my Merkin ear as very odd. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul. -from _Galloway_ by Louis L'Amour */ -Origi

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On 2022-06-07 17:58 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: Rexx came to TSO and people there often say “A Rexx” Whether it's right or wrong, it drives me nuts. Nobody says "a bash", "a PowerShell", "a Java", "a C++", etc. To be fair people did say "a CLIST", and when they replaced CLIST [programs] with Re