Pure functions in D

BCS ao at pathlink.com
Tue Sep 23 12:25:15 PDT 2008


Reply to Ary,

> 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".
> 

I wonder if any language have the full tensor of pronouns?

1st/2nd/3rd person X singular/plural X male/female/mixed/neutral

If you don't omit any as impossible that would be 24 words. That wold be 
a mouth full, including duplicates (him/her vs. he/she, we vs. us) I count 
9 in English (add on me, you and them).





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