Newsgroups: alt.nettime


	previous	workgroup	thread	next


Subject: <nettime> [Fwd: slashes]
From: Erich Moechel <erich-moechel@apanet.at>
Date: 7 Aug 1997 19:44:17 +0200

* * * * *

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------5F37AB96230"
Sender: owner-nettime-l@Desk.nl
Precedence: bulk

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--------------5F37AB96230
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Dear net/timers,
I did not know that anything would come out of my short comment on dots
& slashes.Seeing the reactions of others I forward my answer to
Josephine now 4 all.
cheers
Erich

--------------5F37AB96230
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

Message-ID: <33E9BEB6.1409@apanet.at>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 12:25:26 +0000
From: Erich Moechel <erich-moechel@apanet.at>
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Josephine Bosma <jesis@xs4all.nl>
CC: bbrace@netcom.com
Subject: slashes
References: <l03010d01b00bc6519b0f@[194.109.45.198]> <l03010d01b00d18b63ed2@[194.109.47.50]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

hi Josephine

> >Post/scrypt: dots are elitist (top level domain). The age of slashes is
> >dawning.
> haha
> to be serious:
I was rather serious about this slash issue. Especially in German, a
language that tends to constructing long composite nouns, slashes
inbetween help if you want to stress certain parts of it.Moreover
addressing:
"dear readers" in English is neutral.
"Liebe Leser" in German is not neutral but male. If I want to be polite
which is more to the point thant "correct" you should have to write
"Liebe Leserinnen und Leser". That is lengthy & tiring.
So: liebe Leser/innen does not exclude females, saves space & is more
convenient to my eyes than the current feminist inspired "LeserInnen".
>If you want to see some examples on the funny way slashes can be used, you can find them at www.quintessenz.at in the Plumborama section.

> have a nice day, too (I will, just preparing to get my dinner out of the Mexican Gulf)
>Erich


--------------5F37AB96230--

---
# distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission
# <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism,
# collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
# more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body
# URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de