[Ads-l] "man" avoidance

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Sep 24 18:47:27 UTC 2016


On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> One would not ordinarily write "309 non-African-American men and two
> non-African-American women."
>

"Take it / To the limit / One more time"


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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