On May 11, 6:01 pm, Ken Pledger <ken.pled...@mcs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
> In article
> <d86a8344-37e5-4f6b-89a3-d6d90fb03...@o14g2000vbo.googlegroups.com>,
>  "Rita B. Flesh" <vintage_man...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Men are too stupid for math, all great mathematicians
> > were women and women have found out most about
> > the math you're using today....
>
>       Two complete sentences should not be separated by a mere comma.  
> You appear to have meant:
> "Men are too stupid for math.  All great mathematicians were women and
> women have found out most about the math you're using today."
>
>       Perhaps at least one woman still needs to find out a bit about
> grammar.
>
>             Ken Pledger (male).

A semicolon is valid in that context; i.e, "Men are too stupid for
math; all great mathematicians were women and
women have found out most about the math you're using today."  Real
men are above quibbling about a dot above a comma.

I didn't know that the greatest mathematician, Carl Friedrich Gauss,
was a woman.  What I do know is that the person with allegedly the
current highest IQ, Marilyn vos Savant (a woman), earns a living by
picking the stupidest questions to answer in Parade Magazine and she
sometimes gives a wrong answer.  Also, I have never seen a retraction
from her which suggests to me that she has low moral standards.