From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 01 1999 - 15:43:05 EST
At 3:22 PM -0500 12/1/99, Jim West wrote:
>At 02:47 PM 12/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Jim,
>>
>> So if gender is irrelevant, doesn't "given you birth" seem to work?
>>
>>-- Bart
>>
>
>I have no objections to it. In fact, so far as usability is concerned, i
>would tossa coin between fathered and "given you birth" and it wouldn't
>matter to me which one the coin landed on. (Bad sentence, ends with a
>preposition and all...).
Winston Churchill's response to being caught at such was: "This is the sort
of nonsense up with which I will not put."
Carl W. Conrad
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