[Ads-l] "man" avoidance

[Flourish Klink]

Well, that neatly shuts down what I thought was an enlightening
conversation (or anyway, a conversation in which I discovered some things
about English, even if I never came to agree with you).

There's a joke in here about gender and being "stabbed by a point," but
damned if I can find it.

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 9:06 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> Some prefer the minimally informative "311 people": minimally informative
> though, indeed, demanded by some recent socio-semantic hypotheses.  Others
> prefer the more informative "309 men and two women."
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> No one seems to care for "309 non-African-American men and two
> non-African-American women, all over the age of 18," etc.
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> TMI.
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> On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:01 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > << "man" avoidance" ... gender ... 309 men and two women>>
> > How Claire Chennault fits into all this is another question. My guess it
> > was either a case of the Moulan Complex, or [wait for it] ... the Boy
> Named
> > Sue Syndrome. Not that I'm being judgmental, but it does make ya wonder
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> >  (I.e. maybe it was 308 to 3?)
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