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Subject: Re: *man
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 16:04:14 EDT
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	I generally don't like the straight "person" for "man" substitution,
though I will use it rather than leave myself out of the list of potential
candidates.

	All occupation titles can easily be rephrased (naturally, I think)
without the *man nomenclature.

	journeyman = day laborer (in some cases), reliable worker (2nd def.)
	manpower = "staff" often works quite nicely

	...just consult your dictionary or Thesaurus if you're stuck with
an inadequate internal lexicon!

	...but what do we call "snow in the shape of a human figure"???

						Patricia Collins


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