Promiin

Hello, friends...
Think you seriously that it is the good place here, to discuss this kind of thing reserved for the historians and the statisticians?
I am afraid that it does not lead you to be any more as well gentlemen as it is fashionable.

your kindly friend,
Alain

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Originally posted by mermoz37

I am afraid that it does not lead you to be any more as well gentlemen as it is fashionable.

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Dear Alain, I am not a gentleman... ;)

From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman ):

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"gentleman" signified a man with an income derived from property, a legacy or some other source, and was thus independently wealthy and did not need to work

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Dear Zoom,

I think perhaps you are a gentleman of this modern day, although not in the original antiquated meaning of the word ;-)

From your own source:

"In modern speech, the term is usually democratized so as to include any man of good, courteous conduct, or even to all men (as in indications of gender-separated facilities, or as a sign of the speaker's own courtesy when addressing others)."

And now I am done on this subject as my friend and gentleman Alain objects!


Regards, Bill