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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (beth d. christy)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: they vs it vs he vs she
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 17:14:36 EDT
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From: desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins), Message-ID: <327@h-sc1.UUCP>:
>I beg to disagree.  "Fire fighter", "letter carrier" and "police officer"
>were invented later and there are plenty who say "Yuck, fire fighter is
>sloppy and letter carrier is ambiguous."  Besides, what about "chairman"?
>There are plenty of words ending in "man" that have no good equivalent.
>Such as "human".  (Oh, NOW I'm going to get flamed!  :-) )
>
>	marie desjardins

Worse even than "human":  "woman".  Which should go to "woperson".
Which should further go to "woperoffspring", if we're gonna be
thorough.

(;-)

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--JB                                           "The giant is awake."