AW: [SEELANGS] PC vs. euphemism

[Alina Israeli]

On Mar 30, 2008, at 9:09 AM, FIEGUTH Rolf wrote:

> Dear Olga,
>
> I agree only with the last sentences of your message. Some twenty  
> or thirty years ago, many speakers of German or French were  
> thinking of their language as you do of Russian. Meanwhile, in  
> Swiss administrative usage, you have always to use both forms "der  
> Professor, die Professorin", "le professeur, la professeure"

Indeed, I think it started in Switzerland and then moved onto the  
rest of the French speaking world. These days with cyber  
communications things should move faster. Just in the News (French  
Google News) "553 pour auteure" which means it's been in the news  
fairly recently, "8 949 pour la-ministre" (it added hyphen, not me).  
If only 4x20+10 were no longer in use.



Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington DC. 20016
(202) 885-2387 	
fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu




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