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From: thomson@hub.toronto.edu (Brian Thomson)
Subject: Re: sexist language
Message-ID: <8811181755.AA17230@beaches.hub.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto
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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 88 12:55:21 EST

In article <410@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin) writes:
>> There are such a lot of irrelevant stuffs in these technical groups that I
>> may append my contribution.
>
>who could argue with that?
>
>> Why don't you use the latin language, instead of decadent ones as is the
>> english ? ...
>> 
>> The french language is more subtil than english : ...
>
>> Maybe is it because we do not know sexual discrimination ;
>
>From the folks that brought us that admirable word "Chauvinisme".

Nice try, but 'chauvinism' comes from the character of Nicholas Chauvin,
a soldier who was an overzealous and irrepressible supporter of Napolean.
He was a national chauvinist, not a sexual one.
-- 
		    Brian Thomson,	    CSRI Univ. of Toronto
		    utcsri!uthub!thomson, thomson@hub.toronto.edu