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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
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Subject: Re: [NEWS] Mark Gatiss: "Maybe Doctor Who needs another rest"
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:00:53 +1000
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On 23/07/2025 6:50 am, Your Name wrote:
> On 2025-07-22 11:14:28 +0000, Daniel70 said:
>> On 22/07/2025 10:24 am, solar penguin wrote:
>>> Daniel declared:
>>>> On 21/07/2025 1:01 am, solar penguin wrote:
>>>>> The Idiot interjected:
>>>>>> In article <105imnn$3bfij$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>> Daniel70  <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 19/07/2025 10:52 pm, Blueshirt wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <Snip>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Maybe one day an AI/LLM bot will even be able to
>>>>>>>> have a proper discussion on Usenet?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> WHAT?? If/When that's the case they will certainly have
>>>>>>> surpassed some of us here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Like youself.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh, the irony!
>>>>>
>>>> Yes, our Binky is very slow to catch on, isn't he??
>>>
>>> He only has ‘hiself’ to blame!
>>
>> "hiself"??
> 
> Technically it is a correct word ... if you lived over 525 years ago or 
> live in a very rural area.  :-)

Oh!! You just popped back to then with your TARDIS, did you, Your Name??

>     "'Hiself' or 'hisself' was used in Middle English
>      (before the year 1500, more or less). It is still
>      heard in some dialects, and you might encounter
>      it in books."
> 
>     "'Hiself' is a *common misspelling* . The correct term
>      is 'Himself,' used to refer to a male subject
>      previously mentioned."

Note the "common MISspelling"!! ;-P One must try to improve oneself!!

>> Well, Binky could blame Mummy if he wanted to, I suppose.
-- 
Daniel70