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- From: nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau)
- Subject: Re: American English
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.235749.14921@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
- References: <BzMup6.Fry@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <BznotD.DJ6@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <12195@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 23:57:49 GMT
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- In article <12195@scott.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) writes:
- >
- >However, this is not the case; and since I don't buy the claim that
- >the polysemy of "man" (which doesn't make it any different from most
- >words anyway) could lead to significant loss of meaning in a natural
- >situation, I see no need for shunning one of the meanings in an
- >artificial manner, or any other similar major surgery.
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- But will you violently object if some people prefer to use a less
- ambiguous word, like "person"?
-
- The Rhealist - nadeau@bnr.ca - Speaking only for myself
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