Gender-neutral language in state laws (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Herb Stahlke]

Michigan, at least, gets it right:  Cheboygan.  Of course "boy" still
counts.

Herb


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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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
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> > michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu
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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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> > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Hollis Barnhart
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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.
> > >>> html
> > >>> ),=
> > >>> Washington is the third state to do a complete overhaul of its
> laws
> > >>> to = effectuate gender neutrality.
> > >>>
> > >>> Among the interesting changes (see also =
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> > http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020282625_gendersidexml.html):
> > >>>
> > >>> "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
> > >>>
> > >>> Excluded from change for concerns about confusion:
> > >>> manhole
> > >>> manlock
> > >>>
> > >>> Benjamin Barrett
> > >>> Seattle, WA=
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