name vote

[Kenneth Allen Hyde]

On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Michelle Maria Lazar wrote:

> I agree with Larry Horn concerning the ambiguous reading of GALAXY. In fact,
> in my mind, the second interpretation (i.e. for XY people) was more
> prominent than the first (i.e. as covering all).

I definitely have to second this.  The XY (male) chromosone pair seems to
me to be the salient reading of XY.

Just a comment, but I have to admit that some of the recent are verging on
the cutesy/contrived (I was dismayed to see some of my "suggestions,"
which I gave as bad examples, included in the nominations).  May I throw a
real suggestion into the arena?

How about ALGR = The Association of Language and Gender Researchers.  This
would include all of our proposed membership (in other words, anyone who
is interested in and researching language and gender).

Ken

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