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   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hi, Denis!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:   
      
    AH>  we need to know more about this person & about   
    AH>  the world in which s   
    DM>  s = she?   
      
    AH>  /he lives.   
      
      
             I could have typed "he or she", but "s/he" is easier.  I could also   
   have assumed an educated audience would understand that when I was growing up   
   the masculine singular pronoun was the default if there any chance one of the   
   individuals involved might be male.  Or I could have typed "they", which many   
   people nowadays prefer but which will never sound quite right to me....  :-))   
      
      
      
    DM>  IOW = ?   
      
      
             Fidonet abbreviation of "in other words".  See next paragraph.  :-)   
      
      
      
    AH>  the applications may differ according to the   
    AH>  context, as is often the case with "rules"   
    AH>  in English....  :-)   
      
      
             I reduced about 50 lines of psychobabble (i.e. educational   
   psychology jargon) to a more manageable size & translated it into plainer   
   English.  Then I reduced it even further & connected it to what my readers   
   already know....  :-Q   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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