[Ads-l] Really?

[Geoff Nathan]

And it's her birthday today, and therefore the cause of this discussion (I assume). Many of us are Facebook friends of hers and therefore posted on her FB page. 

Geoff 

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> From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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> The only Keren I've ever known is Keren Rice of the U. of Toronto =
> linguistics department. She's a recent president of the LSA, my
> former =
> co-chair on the LSA Program Committee, and (despite being Canadian)
> an =
> elected fellow of the AAAS as well as a holder of various Canadian =
> hono(u)rs (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keren_Rice). =20

> Note that she takes the feminine singular pronoun.

> LH

> > On Jun 3, 2015, at 4:19 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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> wrote:
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> > Because "Keren" could be a unisex name.
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> > Doesn't good grammar mean anything anymore?
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> > JL
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> > JL
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> > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>
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> >> "47 friends posted on Keren's timeline for their birthday."
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> >> Why did they do that, I wonder.
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> >> -Wilson
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