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- From: maj@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Sexist hypocrites
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.164130.12995@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 16:41:30 +1300
- References: <BzMxsK.HnF@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <38052@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> <1992Dec27.174634.18263@u.washington.edu>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <1992Dec27.174634.18263@u.washington.edu>, lukoff@carson.u.washington.edu (Fred Lukoff) writes:
- [much deleted]
- > Or make up words than end in -person? I actually saw a Washington State
- > government notice for 'fisherperson' licenses and nearly died. So does
- > anyone have any suggestions as to how we can fix this situation, BESIDES
- > -person words?
- >
- > Ben Lukoff
-
- In the case of this particular problem there is no need for
- a -person word solution. The word 'fisher' has a nice biblical
- ring to it and does the job perfectly.
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- Murray A. Jorgensen [ maj@waikato.ac.nz ] University of Waikato
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics Hamilton, New Zealand
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