On Apr 30, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Thomas Grill wrote:
May indeed be true, but i try to repress the sad possibility. I idealistically hope the PD community might somehow reflect the
real world.Well, I can only speak for American usage, but when you address a
large group of people as "guys", it is generally assumed to be
gender-neutral. Women will often it use it that way also.I'm sorry, will update my command of English and my dictionaries...
maybe the latter have that strange perspective.
I am not talking definitions here, but idiomatic usage, so don't change
the dictionaries just yet ;). But I think just about everyone here
shares your desire for a more diverse Pd community, me included.
.hc
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an
idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps
it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the
possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of
it."
- Thomas Jefferson