[Ads-l] "man" avoidance

[Jonathan Lighter]

How bout "309 men and two women" in a context that doesn't suggest that the
female nurses (not mentioned till much later) shot down any Japanese planes?

JL

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Benjamin Barrett <mail.barretts at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
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> > “311 mostly male people”
>
>
> "311 men and women"?
>
>
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> -Wilson
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> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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