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- From: mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi)
- Subject: Re: Radical feminists
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:51:59 GMT
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- In article <725097282snx@sloth.equinox.gen.nz> hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Phil Anderson) writes:
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- >
- >Time for another thread. Why is it that "persons" seems to be rising
- >in popularity at the expense of "people"? To me it seems much more
- >impersonal, treating people as mere population units.
- >
-
- I think "persons" indicates a small group of people, whereas
- people encompasses everyone. I think the word "people" is more popular,
- though. People generally say : "I am inviting a few people over for
- dinner" , instead of : "I am inviting a few persons over for dinner."
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- Mandar.
- --
- "Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die
- for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
- You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some
- day you'll join us, and the world will be as one." - John Lennon.
-