Perhaps I'm starting trouble, but I couldn't help but to chuckle when I
came across this today on a different newsgroup:
https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-7-21
* Michael Trew:
Perhaps I'm starting trouble, but I couldn't help but to chuckle when I
came across this today on a different newsgroup:
https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-7-21
That kind of thing is why I don't feel like reading Dilbert any more. Is Scott becoming an out-of-touch old man (at just 8 years older than me)?
On 10/31/2021 12:46 PM, Quinn C wrote:
* Michael Trew:
Perhaps I'm starting trouble, but I couldn't help but to chuckle when I
came across this today on a different newsgroup:
https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-7-21
That kind of thing is why I don't feel like reading Dilbert any more. Is
Scott becoming an out-of-touch old man (at just 8 years older than me)?
Not out of touch, just flirting with political-cartoon territory.
On 10/31/2021 12:46 PM, Quinn C wrote:
* Michael Trew:
Perhaps I'm starting trouble, but I couldn't help but to chuckle when I
came across this today on a different newsgroup:
https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-7-21
That kind of thing is why I don't feel like reading Dilbert any more. Is
Scott becoming an out-of-touch old man (at just 8 years older than me)?
Not out of touch, just flirting with political-cartoon territory.
In the old days, I recall that many newspapers tried to distinguish
between political cartoons and non-political comics, and "Doonesbury"
created headaches for many editors. I wonder if any newspapers still
worry about that distinction, and have decided that "Dilbert" has
crossed the line?
The people for whom asking for pronouns is the end of civilization now
are the ones who saw it coming when women started wearing pants.
An attack on communication is an attack on civilization -- we are
still suffering from singular "you".
They were using they to "attack civilization" -- whatever that means -- before "civilization" even existed.
On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 19:33:40 -0400, Quinn C
<lispamateur@crommatograph.info> wrote:
The people for whom asking for pronouns is the end of civilization now
are the ones who saw it coming when women started wearing pants.
Pfft.
Today I said "John wrote that they will come home for Christmas."
The pronoun fanatics have made that sentence ambiguous -- you have to
know John to know that he said "we will come home".
An attack on communication is an attack on civilization -- we are
still suffering from singular "you".
And I really, really don't like being a member of two protected
classes. Creating new protected classes is not an advance in
civilization.
On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 00:50:23 -0000 (UTC), Mopoleum--
They were using they to "attack civilization" -- whatever that means
before "civilization" even existed.
It's mandating singular they at gunpoint that is undermining
civilization.
Happens all the time. One more ambiguous pronoun amps it up by what?
0.02%?
On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 08:51:38 -0400, Quinn C
<lispamateur@crommatograph.info> wrote:
Happens all the time. One more ambiguous pronoun amps it up by what?
0.02%?
It finally got to be Usenet time before bedtime, I found this thread,
and then I asked myself: "Is hand-crafting replies to someone who
sees corrupting commication lines as harmless a good use of my limited
time?"
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