Re: the role of Custom in XEmacs (setting != saving)

Hrvoje Niksic writes: Hrvoje> Something must be wrong here. Don't "he" and "il" clearly mark the Hrvoje> surgeon as a male? I'm not even sure for the french :-) I could have written "the surgeon sees him and exclaims" instead. Hrvoje> By the little French that I have, it would seem very strange that *le* Hrvoje> chirurgien can mean a female surgeon. It does. That's part of the debate. Hrvoje> Shouldn't it be "la chirurgien"? Hrvoje> Would "la chirurgien" even Hrvoje> make sense in French? No. "La chirurgienne" would. But it's not supposed to exist. -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:verna＠inf.enst.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 46 rue Barrault Tel. (33) 01 45 81 73 46 75634 Paris cedex 13 Fax. (33) 01 45 81 31 19