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Right. But isn't that, in its way, throwing up your hands in horror in
order to avoid saying something stupid?<br>
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--David T<br>
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Fritz Goerling wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext;">There is a
third option, David: expunge
all “offensive” words because inclusive coinages<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">like “person in the
moon”, “personhole”,
“personpower”, “person-of-war”, “a person<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">of THEIR word” might
defeat the purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Fritz<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><font color="black" face="Courier New"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Either throw up its hands in
horror or say something
stupid. (The second option seems to me to be the most popular one.)</span></font></tt><font
face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">--David Tuggy</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">Fritz Goerling wrote: <o:p></o:p></font></tt></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">How
would a politically
correct dictionary handle all this “discrimination?”<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></tt><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font></tt><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Fritz Goerling<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></tt><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font></tt><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><tt><font color="black"
face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">On the
other hand, why can you say "Necessity is the mother of invention" </span></font></tt><font
face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">but not "Necessity is the father of
invention" and "mother-of-pearl" and not </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">"father-of-pearl' and "mother ship"
and not "father ship"? Why do we speak </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">of "daughter languages" and not "son
languages"? Why "nursemaid" and not </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">"nurseman"? Why "maiden voyage" and
not "bachelor voyage"? Why is the game </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">called "Aunt Sally" and not "Uncle
Ben"? and so on.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Gender preferences work both ways in
English.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">John Roberts</font></tt><br>
<br>
</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
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