Pure functions in D

Yigal Chripun yigal100 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 12:21:01 PDT 2008


Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> Yigal Chripun wrote:
>> BCS wrote:
>>> Reply to Victor,
>>>
>>>> I think only stupid American feminists will tread word "he" as
>>>> "discrimination".
>>>> I'm sure that Russian girls-programmers just laugh when hear those
>>>> language perversions for sexual polit-correctness.
>>>> This is correct for all Russian girls/women, which i know and spoke...
>>>> Also, for persons speaking English badly (as me) it will be very
>>>> difficult to use correct USA-specific PC-words.
>>>>
>>>> Don't be mad on this shit, i propose!
>>>>
>>> I find the gender neutral part funny as well, however once in a while
>>> being able to explicitly differentiate between gender neutral and either
>>> gender can be handy: "Officer, I saw him steal the bag,.. Er, it might
>>> have bean a woman but I'm really don't know"
>>>
>>>
>> in my native language (Hebrew) there is no neutral part at all.
>> everything is either male, female or (rarely) both. That included stuff
>> like chair, table (both male), shirt (female) etc.
>> No such problems as you describe occur in practice (in Hebrew) - either
>> you use the male form (which is the default):
>> "I saw someone (in the male form) steal the bag" - is understood to be
>> someone either male or female. this is because when you say "him",
>> someone, etc, you refer to a "person" which is a male noun. if you want
>> to specify that it was indeed a man than just say: "I saw a _man_ ... "
> 
> I find it most interesting that four versions of "you" exist in hebrew,
> that are all combinations of "male/female" and "singular/plural".

Isn't it like this in most languages?
at least I know that Russian has both singular and plural. actually I
think I read once that English had the same distinction as well but it
got deprecated or something.



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