Re: the role of Custom in XEmacs (setting != saving)
Per Abrahamsen <abraham(a)dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> Footnotes:
> [1] It's completely off-topic, but in France, there's a debate on
> feminization of several words describing professions for instance.
> Historically, some professions were reserved for men which explains why
> nowadays we lack many feminin equivalents.
...
Any profession that used to have two names now only has one name,
...
Any profession that used to have a single name now has two names, ...
How amusing. It's not difficult to get english to be gender neutral
(it's only the occasional noun like chairman, mailman, stewardess)
that needs a "fixing", but languages with most nouns being either
feminine or masculine -- what a nightmare. At this point, I'd just assumed
such cultures were smart enough to ignore the issue.
--pete