Gender-neutral language in state laws (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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And SHEboygan

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> Of course there's egregious case of MANhattan.
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> Michael Newman
> Associate Professor of Linguistics
> Queens College/CUNY
> michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu
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> On Feb 4, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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> > And of course, from "woman." And the "son" from "person."
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> > I seem to have lived through this at least 37 years ago.
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> > The price of paranoia is eternal vigilance.
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> > JL
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> >> I would have also removed the man from hu.
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> >> Hollis Barnhart
> >> On Feb 4, 2013 5:25 PM, "Benjamin Barrett" <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
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> >>> According to the Seattle Times =
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> (http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020282616_genderneutralxml.
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> >>> Washington is the third state to do a complete overhaul of its
laws
> >>> to = effectuate gender neutrality.
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> >>> Among the interesting changes (see also =
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> http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020282625_gendersidexml.html):
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> >>> "his" -> "his or her" (perhaps this sequence was selected to match
> >>> "he = or she") fisherman -> fisher freshman -> first-year student
> >>> (railway) fireman -> fire tender
> >>> longshoreman -> longshore worker
> >>> man's cause -> person's cause
> >>> man's past -> humankind's past
> >>> ombudsman -> ombuds (despite it being a borrowing, "-man" appears
> to
> >>> = mean "man" in Swedish
(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/man#Swedish)
> >>> and = has the appearance of gender bias in English) penmanship ->
> >>> handwriting sportsmanship -> sporting/hunting behavior
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> >>> Excluded from change for concerns about confusion:
> >>> manhole
> >>> manlock
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> >>> Benjamin Barrett
> >>> Seattle, WA=
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