--- sannse <sannse(a)delphiforums.com> wrote: German is a great language in that respect. You a woman Sannse ? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com

sannse wrote: Well, on this issue it's usually a reasonable assumption -- at least in most places where online discussion takes place, the participants are invariably 90-95% male (and sometimes it's more lopsided than that -- take a look at [[Slashdot]]'s demographics...). In fact, often you're better off presuming even (or perhaps especially!) people with obviously-female names are male. Wikipedia may be somewhat more diverse, though I doubt it'd be possible to get good statistics. But in any case once we "assume everyone is male" people start noticing a few times we're wrong about it, we start getting more wary about assuming in the future (or so's the hope anyway). It's in places that every time you assume someone's male it turns out they actually *are* male that it's hard to change to become less presumptuous. :-P -Mark

--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> wrote: The picture accessible from your user page is not particularly feminine Erik. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com

Anthere wrote: No, I didn't count JohnQ/MaryMary. I only looked at the most recent discussion. The four I counted were you, me, Deb and Vicki Rosenzweig. But maybe I'm erring in the other direction with Vicki, I don't actually recall hir saying either way. Regards, sannse

steve vertigo wrote: My OED says nothing about the plural of "clitoris"; even the above might be read as "people with a clitoris" as it would be freaky for anybody to have more than one. Still there are grammatical circumstances in my warped mind where the plural is imaginable. "Clitoris" is a word of Greek origin, and I wonder whether the proper plural might be "clitorides" Ec