When I enjoy something, all six of me do. It is somewhat like the royal
"we", using the plural and implying the singular. It is weird as heck,
and all of me think so.
Try this: The full stop goes outside the quotation marks. There could
also be a period inside the quotation marks if the period is intended to
be part of the quotation.
Enough frivolity for a Friday afternoon. There is still work to be done!
Ginny
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Allison
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 2:31 PM
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Subject: Re: Reasonable man or person; "Doff" one's hat
Women probably could not do worse, could they? Ladies?
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From: Daniel Warner [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 12:13 PM
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Subject: Reasonable man or person; "Doff" one's hat
Hi All:
"Doff" (as in "to doff one's hat") is a contraction of "take off," and
"don" (as "don we now our gay apparel") is a contraction for "put on."
Back in the days before society strove greatly (and with good reason)
for gender nuetral language, the comment about "reasonable man" was
followed somewhere with this: "But in all the law's discussion of 'the
reasonable man' there is not a word about 'the reasonable woman.'"
(Incidentally, more and more my students are putting the period in a
sentence like that just above *outside* the quotation marks. But then
we here in the US got that all balled up: the Brits are right, where we
use double quotation marks they use "inverted commas" (single quotation
marks), and where we use single, they use double, and by rights the
period ('full stop') should be outside the quotation marks.
Anyhow, back to the gender issue: Frankly I'm looking forward to having
women assume the major reins of power. Men have had at it for the last
5000 years or so in most world cultures, and it has not been good.
Women now compose more than half the students attending law school,
and--indeed--more than half the students in undergraduate studies.
Speaking of working on gender-nuetral language, the Revised UCC (Article
3 and 4) finally does away with the insistent use of the masculine
pronoun and--sometime rather laboriously--uses "person" instead. We
need a good generic pronoun. I still find this awkward: "Everyone
please take their seats"; "everyone enjoyed themselves."
Best regards, colleagues,
Dan
Prof. Daniel M. Warner
Dept. of Accounting (Business Legal Studies)
MS 9071, Parks Hall 401
Western Washington University
516 High St.
Bellingham, WA 98225
360 650-3390
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Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 5:57 PM
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Subject: Re: A Day in the Life of the Reasonable Man
Few know literary trivia like Robert Emerson [Was it going to Sewanne or
going to Harvard?]. Whichever, I doff my hat.
What, exactly, is it a doff? Is that actually a word? I was thinking of
taking off my hat and bowing, perhaps scraping a bit along the way.
Except I do not often wear a hat. How critical is the hat?
What do we say of a colleague who can leap on obscurity and illumine it?
And, lo and behold, from France.
He must be bored.
Ginny
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Robert W Emerson
Sent: Thu 10/7/2010 8:42 PM
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Subject: Re: A Day in the Life of the Reasonable Man
AP Herbert was the writer.
Try
http://alittlebitofjake.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/the-myth-of-the-reasona
ble-man-the-case-of-fardell-v-potts-a-p-herbert/
Robert
Robert W. Emerson
Huber Hurst Professor of Business Law
Warrington College of Business Administration
University of Florida
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kenneth Schneyer
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 8:06 PM
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Subject: A Day in the Life of the Reasonable Man
Hi Everyone,
I am certain that I remember an old article called something like "A Day
in the Life of the Reasonable Man," showing all the mythical absurdities
the courts attribute to such a person.
But for the life of me, I cannot find it now. Does anyone have a
citation?
Thanks,
Ken Schneyer
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