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Subject:Antwort: RE: Gender neutral - shades of gray From:Kerstin -dot- Molthagen -at- etas -dot- de To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:20:26 +0100
Hi!
Watson Laughton wrote:
>[...]
>And I doubt ANYONE would read a construction like "when the user removes
the
>cover from the drive casing, she runs the risk of exposing the magnetic
>surface to dust particles" without at least THINKING "Huh? Whassup with
>that?" [...]
I would not think so... In fact, I did not think so when I came across a
similar sentence. But then I'm not anyone, I'm Kerstin... ;-)
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