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Re: A gender neutral pronoun, was Fundamentalist Nightmare

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From: Await the Stones
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 11:38
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bigbro is defined as the person who on, 
On Thu, 05 Nov 92 15:26:58 PST,
said:

bigbro> greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (J. S. Greenfield) writes:

> To me, both of these positions seem equally dumb.

bigbro> Excatly, in any situation there can be a reasonable
bigbro> explaination and solution, but people will always carry it to
bigbro> extremes, and screw it up.  Like enviromentalists, the
bigbro> enviroment, in my opinion is a worthy cause, however I do not
bigbro> feel like admitting it when EARTH FIRST! fools put stakes into
bigbro> trees to hurt the loggers....nor can I agree with those who
bigbro> are so mad at these extremeists, that the go into thier own
bigbro> little terrorists organzations, and take the other extreme.
bigbro> Any extreme is evil.

Yes, this is the way I've always interpreted my family's motto:

Mediocria Firma (loosely translated as "Moderation in Everything")

at least, that's who I interpret it.  Works pretty well too.

-lightnin

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From: lightnin@realsoon.WPI.EDU (Await the Stones)
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Subject: Re: A gender neutral pronoun, was Fundamentalist Nightmare
Date: 6 Nov 92 11:38:05
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