Re: walkpersons

[R.A.S. <richards...>]

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On 04/03/2003 at 07:11 Bob Wiener wrote:

>Judith,
>
>I wholly agree.  (Of course with a capital "W" that would be a brandname.)
>
>I sincerely hope that gender bias in our language disappears entirely so
>that we no longer refer to "man-eating sharks" and "hitmen."

G** forbid! The English language has been sodomised more than enough over
the last thirty years or so in particular (though mostly in the last 15 -
20), IMO. "Political correctness" and similar nonsense is making a complete
mockery out of language. It's really extracting the urine.

And fwiw, the "man" in "man-eating sharks" and other such context doesn't
even refer to  gender in the first place but uses "man" in the genderless
sense of "human" - the typical sort of thing that always seems to
completely escape the more rampant feminists and "PC" facists.

Really, the whole issue is way too ludicrous to even take it seriously. But
enough of this very off-topic stuff, for me anyway.


Richard
(Renaissance Man)
(NOT a "New Man" - decidedly not :-)  )


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