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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: English English versus *American* English
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.162234.13894@convex.com>
- Originator: tchrist@convex.convex.com
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- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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- References: <1992Jul29.195833.23239@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Jul29.235833.6853@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Jul30.052330.457@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:22:34 GMT
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- From the keyboard of mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi):
- :In article <1992Jul29.235833.6853@news.eng.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
- :>From the keyboard of mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi):
- :>> Besides I usually never look at what country, race, etc. an individual
- :>> belongs to, when I make friends. The same would hold true if I ever found
- :>> myself in the position of hiring a new worker in the US. I would evaluate
- :>> him for his qualities, not for his nationality, race. etc.
- :>
- :>Notice MMM didn't name gender as something not to discrimate against, and
- :>has chosen to evaluate HIM for HIS qualities. Women, don your veils!
- :>
- :>--tom
- :
- :There are so many discriminating factors, that it would be impossible to
- :state all of them. That is why I chose to use "etc.". For your clarification
- :"etc." contains
- :1. Gender
- :2. Religion
- :3. Caste
- :4. Sub caste
- :5. native tongue spoken
- :6. economic background
- :7. State
- :8. County
- :9. City
- :10. Suburb
- :11. need I go on?
- :
- : I meant "his", in the general sense (as is used frequently) ,
- :and that includes "her" too.
- :
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- "GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible
- to accomplish complex actions." --Doug Gwyn (22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards)
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- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
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