...hegemony" is nonsense. To assert that the US must respond with economic confrontation backed up by the threat of war is, to borrow a phrase from Jeremy Bentham, nonsense on stilts. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2006 ------------------------------ Micky Wong wrote: Book Excerpt: "The Coming China Wars" Introduction http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/...

... Ach Ton, zie je ook kans de b-kant te rippen? Ik moest als kind altijd zo vreselijk lachen om die droge stem: "Geluidseffect nummer één: 3 seconden stilte..." "Geluidseffect nummer twee: 2 maten rust..." enz,enz... Dit singeltje brengt weer wat jeugdsentiment omhoog... :-) Alvast bedankt! Bertje- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht niet weergeven -...

...ncn5uu1rryw Ach Ton, zie je ook kans de b-kant te rippen? Ik moest als kind altijd zo vreselijk lachen om die droge stem: "Geluidseffect nummer één: 3 seconden stilte..." "Geluidseffect nummer twee: 2 maten rust..." enz,enz... Dit singeltje brengt weer wat jeugdsentiment omhoog... :-) Alvast bedankt! Bertje- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht niet weergeven - ...

... hoef je niet te zoeken: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ncn5uu1rryw Ach Ton, zie je ook kans de b-kant te rippen? Ik moest als kind altijd zo vreselijk lachen om die droge stem: "Geluidseffect nummer één: 3 seconden stilte..." "Geluidseffect nummer twee: 2 maten rust..." enz,enz... Dit singeltje brengt weer wat jeugdsentiment omhoog... :-) Alvast bedankt! Bertje

... The Vientiane Flooding and Drought Prevention Committee's Secretariat Head, Vilasack Nammounty, said technical staff were discussing preventive measures, including the use of electrical poles or wooden stilts to help support walls of sandbags. It is hoped reinforcing the walls will prevent sandbags from being swept away if floodwaters rise further. Mr Vilasack said the ...

... The Vientiane Flooding and Drought Prevention Committee's Secretariat Head, Vilasack Nammounty, said technical staff were discussing preventive measures, including the use of electrical poles or wooden stilts to help support walls of sandbags. It is hoped reinforcing the walls will prevent sandbags from being swept away if floodwaters rise further. Mr Vilasack said the ...

.... Even so, why should language style be a weight-of-numbers thing? If we believed in weight of numbers as convincing, none of us would be using debian. You are perfectly free to use the stilted "he or she" in your own writing; everyone will know you have a yardstick up your butt[1], but that's your problem rather than mine. OTOH, when you start insisting that other people *not* use ...

... No, it hasn't. It is used naturally for indeterminates. Using it for singulars sounds stilted and contrived. The developer is clearly not an indeterminate. It's a single...the use case for the epicene they. I believe you're simply wrong here. This supposedly stilted and contrived construct routinely goes unremarked and unnoticed by native English speakers who are not ...

.... The Vientiane Flooding and Drought Prevention Committee's Secretariat Head, Vilasack Nammounty, said technical staff were discussing preventive measures, including the use of electrical poles or wooden stilts to help support walls of sandbags. It is hoped reinforcing the walls will prevent sandbags from being swept away if floodwaters rise further. Mr Vilasack said the committee also ...

... a écrit : It's a single person with indeterminate gender, which is exactly the use case for the epicene they. I believe you're simply wrong here. This supposedly stilted and contrived construct routinely goes unremarked and unnoticed by native English speakers who are not concentrating on applying prescriptive grammar rules. Hi all, please have some pity for the non-native ...