Re: Amateurs suck (was [snip] (was Re: 69/8...this [degenerate linguistic usage elided))

["Lucy E. Lynch" <llynch () darkwing uoregon edu>]

You go girl. And I mean that regardless of actual gender.

1967 Listener 15 June 793/2
"What I love about newspapers is their etaoin shrdl." OED

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On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:

> You mean to say that you wasted everyone's time (although I suspect that
> many already filter you out, with cause) and energy to spout this nonsense?
> I had to go back and find what on earth the "degenerate linguistic usage
> elided" referred to. As you can see, I figured it out. I apologize ahead of
> time to Susan, to save her the private scolding that otherwise would almost
> certainly be headed my way.
>
> That said, you sir, are a fool.
>
> "Dr. Jeffrey Race" wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:58:50 -0500, Vivien M. wrote:
> > > I wonder if perhaps a solution would be doing something I saw a gentleman
> > > from China, IIRC, do on this list quite a while ago. He had added (Mr.)
> > to
> > > his .sig to make it easy for people to figure out his gender. Perhaps
> > this
> > > would be an easyish way to somewhat-subtly warn people of the correct
> > > gender?
> >
> > Female personal-status-specific honorifics (Miss, Mrs.) used
> > to be essential elements of any signature block, at least for written
> > correspondence, in the days when persons honored one another.  Lack
> > of such an honorific implied not female. Now it's just 'Hi $first_name'.
> > I'm glad I'm on the way out.
>
> Puh-leeze. Does this mean that anyone female ought to let you know ahead of
> time, because otherwise they're male? Perhaps you are implying that the
> first name basis of some folk is offensive to you (trust me, if the phrase
> "this sucks" is offensive to you, you don't want to hang out in a router
> room).
>
> Maybe I misunderstand. Perhaps you mean that we should all put our
> important titles and other status-signifying characteristics in our
> "signature blocks" so that everyone will know how important we are (or
> not). I know some Ph.D. folk, but unlike you, they don't consider it an
> integral part of their name (except Dr. Mudge, but that's another story,
> and it's over anyway).
>
> Oh, I could go on, but I won't. How's this for "degenerate linguistic
> usage?"
>
> *plonk*
>
> --
> Traceroute is a disconcertingly blunt hammer; that we continue
> to use it to essentially nail moving jello to a wall says more
> about us than about anything on the Internet.
>             k claffy (at 8:43 -0700 10/17/02 on NANOG)