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- From: jww@evolving.com (John W. Woolley)
- Subject: Re: American English
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.214248.82611@evolving.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:42:48 GMT
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- nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) writes:
- : But will you violently object if some people prefer to use a less
- : ambiguous word, like "person"?
-
- The theologians chime in now with the observation that, in their
- discipline, "person" ("an individual substance of a rational nature"
- -- Boethius) includes angels and God, and is therefore not synonymous
- with "men".
- --
- Fr. John Woolley (jww@evolving.com); vastly enthusiastic about Augustine,
- Austen, babies, Bach, backgammon, baseball, beer, the Bible, Botticelli, Burke,
- Chesterton, Dante, Dixieland, hardboiled, Hitchcock, Dr Johnson, Latin, Mozart,
- Shakespeare/de Vere, St Teresa, Tolkien, Trollope, Fats Waller, and Washington
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