You're seriously claiming that the ability of a group of people to determine how they prefer to be referred to is Orwellian? Do you even know what "Orwellian" means? I mean, do you even know the plot outline of 1984?
What your school taught you and what is actually true about the English language are very different things. Infinitives can be easily split, for example.
The day the English language becomes the master of our interactions and not a tool of them, is the day that Orwell's nightmares come true. (It is telling that Orwell was a grammatical prescriptivist.)
"It" is used exclusively to refer to nonhuman objects, and has a long history in writing as a way of emphasising that something ostensibly or previously human is not. If you can't see the reason for offense, you either don't read much or don't encounter human beings very often.
Q1 2011 profits relate to device sold up to (not after) that point: the Windows Phone decision, by simple causality, had nothing to do with it. By that point Nokia were already well into a sustained profits slump, having had their last big smartphone success with the 5800 years before:
This fantasy that Nokia was doing just fine until Elop came in has to end. We in the Symbian community could see the writing on the wall by the time the N97 flopped in 2009.
If you look at Nokia's revenues over time, Elop had zero effect at all. If anything, it's amazing that the end of Symbian development doesn't show up as a massive cliff on that chart, implying he actually had a positive effect.
Android's super-open, it just turns out people are more interested in the idea of having Google services on a phone than in Android itself. And that part is certainly not open. If you want to find your own supplier for maps, email, calendar, and browser, then you can launch your own Android gizmo; Microsoft has all those things.
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Hey, I never said it'd be easy.
I did, I assumed you were bringing the conversation back around rather than expanding on his branch. My mistake.
You're seriously claiming that the ability of a group of people to determine how they prefer to be referred to is Orwellian? Do you even know what "Orwellian" means? I mean, do you even know the plot outline of 1984?
This isn't the case of a nonspecific hypothetical person, though: this is for the specific case.
Keep guessing.
It's true, gender was completely locked down and unambiguous until 2007, and none of these terms pre-date the second-generation iPod.
What your school taught you and what is actually true about the English language are very different things. Infinitives can be easily split, for example.
It's always used on non-humans, but it's not used on all non-humans.
It was still perfectly standard usage when I was born, and suffice to say I am not old enough to have used "thou".
The day the English language becomes the master of our interactions and not a tool of them, is the day that Orwell's nightmares come true. (It is telling that Orwell was a grammatical prescriptivist.)
To be blunt, they can't perform demographic analysis for advertising on the basis of a free text field.
The article shows him physically waiting in line. While dressed up as an iPhone...
"It" is used exclusively to refer to nonhuman objects, and has a long history in writing as a way of emphasising that something ostensibly or previously human is not. If you can't see the reason for offense, you either don't read much or don't encounter human beings very often.
"Singular they" has been a standard part of English for a long, long time.
Finds comp sci terminology nauseating, uses term "douchiness".
The smartphone unit had sustained almost a year of falling profits before that happened.
Nokia's smartphone profits were dropping about 20% YoY every quarter for a year before Elop appeared.
Q1 2011 profits relate to device sold up to (not after) that point: the Windows Phone decision, by simple causality, had nothing to do with it. By that point Nokia were already well into a sustained profits slump, having had their last big smartphone success with the 5800 years before:
http://www.theguardian.com/bus...
This fantasy that Nokia was doing just fine until Elop came in has to end. We in the Symbian community could see the writing on the wall by the time the N97 flopped in 2009.
If you look at Nokia's revenues over time, Elop had zero effect at all. If anything, it's amazing that the end of Symbian development doesn't show up as a massive cliff on that chart, implying he actually had a positive effect.
Nokia's revenues were already falling dramatically; they peaked in 2007:
http://www.wikinvest.com/stock...
Android's super-open, it just turns out people are more interested in the idea of having Google services on a phone than in Android itself. And that part is certainly not open. If you want to find your own supplier for maps, email, calendar, and browser, then you can launch your own Android gizmo; Microsoft has all those things.
I did read the article, but the implications of its variance by demographic group didn't occur to me. Thanks!
I would probably start looking further afield than the languages from which English got its grammar and vocabulary.
I've stuck my arm in 700C furnaces without harm, and they're putting out about a million times the thermal energy of your cell phone.
To be exact, they're saying it's in exactly the same malfunctioning state it was before the lunar winter.