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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Thanks for your wise gender-sensitive
solutions like<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>“a man/woman would engender a movement” because<o:p></o:p></span></font></tt></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I cannot imagine that “a man mothers a movement”<o:p></o:p></span></font></tt></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>will make it.;-)<o:p></o:p></span></font></tt></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></tt></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Fritz</span></font></tt><font color=black face=Arial><span
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<tt><font face="Courier New">“Why is it that a woman can man a station
but a man can’t</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">woman one, that a man can father a movement but a
woman</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">can’t mother one, and that a king rules a
kingdom but a queen</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">doesn’t rule a queendom? "</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">What do they teach them in those lexicography
schools these days?</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">The reason is that the metaphors or extended
meanings of the verbs discard</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">the gender-specific aspects of the verb they are
extending.</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">What really would be the semantic difference
between fathering a movement</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">and mothering a movement? What would be the
semantic difference between a</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">kingdom and a queendom? Not much, really.</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">Although maybe this is another argument for more
gender inclusive English,</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">so a man/woman would person a station,</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">a man/woman would engender a movement,</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">a king/queen would rule a monarchdom (monarchy?).</font></tt><br>
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<st1:PersonName w:st="on"><tt><font face="Courier New">Steve White</font></tt></st1:PersonName><tt><font
face="Courier New">, Jaars language software support</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">704-843-6337, 1-800-215-7813</font></tt><br>
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