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From:Lenz Grimmer Date:February 6 2003 8:18am
Subject:Re: Is it my English or does this sound bad?
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Defryn, Guy wrote:

> I was just reading through the Mysql manual section 3.32
> And came across a sentence that started like this
>
> Animal sex can be represented in a variety of ways
>
> My mother tongue is not English but doesn't it sound rude ? :-)

It does and that's why it has been changed in the meanwhile:

"Several types of values can be chosen to represent sex in animal records,
such as "m" and "f", or perhaps "male" and "female".  It's simplest to use
the single characters "m" and "f"."

Bye,
	LenZ
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Is it my English or does this sound bad?Guy Defryn5 Feb
  • Re: Is it my English or does this sound bad?Jeremy Zawodny5 Feb
  • Re: Is it my English or does this sound bad?Paul DuBois5 Feb
    • RE: Is it my English or does this sound bad?Richard E. Perlotto II6 Feb
  • Re: Is it my English or does this sound bad?Doug Thompson5 Feb
  • Re: Is it my English or does this sound bad?Kevin Smith5 Feb
    • RE: Is it my English or does this sound bad?Joseph Jude6 Feb
  • Re: Is it my English or does this sound bad?Zak Greant5 Feb
    • Re: Is it my English or does this sound bad?Michael T. Babcock6 Feb
  • Re: Is it my English or does this sound bad?Lenz Grimmer6 Feb
  • Re: Is it my English or does this sound bad?David T-G7 Feb
RE: Is it my English or does this sound bad?Peter Grigor6 Feb
RE: Is it my English or does this sound bad?Andrew Braithwaite8 Feb
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