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- From: djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Density and Sexist language (was...
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 02:24:15 GMT
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- In article <BzJurC.Drt@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@banshee.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
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- # But everyone agrees that there are words which evoke male images
- # more frequently than female images, and the vice-versa.
- # Furthermore, some persons want to drop these words from usage and
- # replace them with other words. Well, why stop at "sexist" words?
- # Why not resolve ALL ambiguity?? I challenge anyone to do that.
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- What dictionary do you use that defines ambiguity as "evoking one
- image more than another"? Did some mischievous Englishman tell you
- that's what it means?
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- David "My hovercraft is full of eels" Johns
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