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   REPLY: 5720da41   
   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
   AH>  Gloom = a state of partial or total darkness.   
      
   ak>  Well... So an Englishman can see in the gloom    
   ak>  and can not see in the gloom.  ;-)   
      
           
             I see you got the idea.  Good....  :-)   
      
             I added the correction just before posting my reply, then began to   
   wonder if I should have said simply "-man", "-men".  This pattern is akin to   
   what dictionaries use, builds on what you & others here already know, and is   
   easier to read.  OTOH I wouldn't want anyone to read too much into it.   
      
             Man, men.  Woman, women.  The same applies to "Englishman" & other   
   words you've probably encountered before.  But times change, and where folks   
   like me grew up hearing of policemen & policewomen many such terms have been   
   replaced by gender-neutral terms... WRT this example, "police officer".  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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