Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!ntt From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Use of person vs. man/women Message-ID: <912@dciem.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-May-84 16:59:03 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.912 Posted: Tue May 8 16:59:03 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 8-May-84 17:50:14 EDT References: <1277@uvacs.UUCP> Organization: NTT Systems Inc., Toronto, Canada Lines: 5 To this reader, "I know a person who..." sounds contrived. I would be quite likely to say "I know *someone* who...", though I might also substitute "a man" or "a woman" or "a guy" or ... Mark Brader