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- From: mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi)
- Subject: Re: American English
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:24:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.235749.14921@bmerh85.bnr.ca> nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) writes:
- >In article <12195@scott.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) writes:
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- >>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.
- >
- >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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- No....but we *will*, if you try to force us to do the same when either
- of the words is applicable.
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- Mandar.
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