Re: Changing name (was Re: The difficulties of raising your kids to be properly homophobic)

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:09:06 +0000 (UTC), in message
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 spope33@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Steve Pope) wrote:

>Ryk  <ryk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>The context of this group is (I think) intentionally international.
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>>The best information I have suggests that there are a lot of people
>>who live in California who are not US citizens and may need to renew
>>their pass****ts anyway. 
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>Aahz did not make a statement about "everybody in California".
>He made a statement about one person in California, i.e. himself,
>which included the information that he had to deal with the 
>US State Department for his pass****t, thus narrowing down
>the context.  

I don't think he was referring to himself when he said "your pass****t"
and "you".  From the context I can't tell if that was singular or
plural usage, specific, or general.

Ryk