gennawing males

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Dec 1 15:43:05 EST 1999


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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