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To: TXBubba
Am I correct that they referred to this person as "it"?

It was from Bablefish. A lot of languages use "he" or "she" for inanimate objects, which get translated into English as "it" unless you know it is something or someone with a sex.

7 posted on 08/11/2006 1:59:02 PM PDT by KarlInOhio ("Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: KarlInOhio; GSlob; HAL9000

Thanks. That explains it. Otherwise one could picture a lot of things for "it". grin.


11 posted on 08/11/2006 2:02:59 PM PDT by TXBubba ( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
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