choices

[Alexey I. Fuchs]

> I am surprised that people assume that a speaker is "unable" to express
> him/herself in ways other that what s/he is choosing at the moment.


About obscenity. In a joke I recently heard, the word "woman" was
considered vulgar and had to be replaced with "feminoamerican."

Do we really need slashes in an english sentence? Must a language be
"politically", or, in this case, "socially correct?"
I doubt it. Is the fact that we regard "speaker" as masculine by default
so offensive, that one should introduce slashes into a sentence?

Just a question, no offense intended.

                                        Alexey