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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry Gold)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.women
Subject: Re: Homo, Vir, and Latin
Message-ID: <1711@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 01:49:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 25 01:49:10 1985
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry Gold)
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Summary: 

Back when I took Latin, HOMO meant a normal run of the mill fellow, and
VIR meant a hero, rather than either of them meaning a human being of
non-defined gender.

--Lee Gold