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From: norman@lasspvax.UUCP (Norman Ramsey)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Saying It Nicely
Message-ID: <501@lasspvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 22:19:34 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 22:19:34 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 2-Sep-85 04:02:50 EDT
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Reply-To: norman@lasspvax.UUCP (Norman Ramsey)
Organization: LASSP, Cornell University
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David Brin, in his _Startide_Rising_, created (?) the following usage:

   people are "men"
   male people are "mels"
   female people are "fems"
   doplhins are "fen" (one dolphin is a "fin")

Not beautiful, perhaps, but it works... so some people *are* doing something
about it.
-- 
Norman Ramsey

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