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

Thursday, 18 March 1999

        Didier Verna <verna(a)inf.enst.fr&gt; writes:

...
 - Un pčre et son fils font de l'escalade. Le fils tombe et se
blesse
 gravement. Son pčre l'emmčne aussitôt ŕ l'hopital, et quand le chirurgien le
 voit, il s'écrie: ŤMais je ne peux pas l'opérer! C'est mon fils!ť.     
   ^^
...
 - A father and his son are climbing a moutain. The boy falls and
seriously
 injurs himself. The father immediately gets him to the hospital, and when the
 surgeon sees him, he exclaims: "But I can't operate him! He's my son!".
                    ^^

Something must be wrong here.  Don't "he" and "il" clearly mark
the
surgeon as a male?

...
 Most people can't find the key because in french, "le
chirurgien"
 (the surgeon) is a male-only expression which also designates a
 female surgeon[1]. 
By the little French that I have, it would seem very strange that *le*
chirurgien can mean a female surgeon.  Shouldn't it be "la
chirurgien"?  Would "la chirurgien" even make sense in French?

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