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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: The Internet Virus--A Commentary
Message-ID: <1988Nov9.200939.6069@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1460@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <698@packard.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 88 20:09:39 GMT

In article <698@packard.UUCP> shz@packard.UUCP writes:
>Just a minor correction:  Substitute "staff" for each occurrence of "man"
>in the below fragment, yielding "staff-hours", "staff-weeks" and
>"staff-years".

From a handy dictionary:

"man, n. [pl. men]  1, a mammal of the genus Homo.  2, a person; a human
being.  3, the human race; mankind..."

If they have non-human staff, then I can see the legitimacy of the objection!

(I have no quarrel with people who prefer to avoid the use of masculine
words as generic forms, provided that readability does not suffer, but
criticizing people for using legitimate English is ridiculous.)
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