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From: sean@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Sean McLinden)
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Subject: Re: sexist language
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Date: 18 Nov 88 13:06:48 GMT
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In article <410@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin) writes:
:: 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".

Ah, yes. But "Chauvinisme" did not refer to "sexism", but to Chauvin
who was a moroniccally loyal devotee of Napolean. (To be chauvinistic was
to cling, foolishly, to some one or some cause).

Sean McLinden
Decision Systems Laboratory