On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 21:30:42 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle
> wrote:

> Ophelia wrote:
> >
> >
> > "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> On 7/13/2014 12:19 PM, Ophelia wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> >>> ...
> >>>> DUH... that's why I said you should have ping'd tert and asked him to
> >>>> email you. If he wanted to he wouldn't do so with a munged email
> >>>> address.
> >>>
> >>> He??? I thought Tert was a lady???
> >>>
> >> Heck, I don't know. I guess I should have typed he/she.
> >>
> >> At any rate, I wouldn't ping someone with those sorts of questions. I'd
> >> just ask him/her to email me. If they want to reply via email they will.
> >
> > Well s/he responded and didn't seem to mind. Even made a wee bit joke about
> > it ))
>
> please call me "it" or "they" and stop with the slashed personal pronouns

That's what happens with a name like "tert". You'd be an "it" if you
were a machine. They know you're a mammal, so s/he fits - and don't
expect everyone to remember your gender. Everyone knows mine because
swishy publishes it on a regular basis.

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