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- From: mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
- Message-ID: <mattm-211292171233@mcmelmon.apple.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 01:21:59 GMT
- References: <BzFIJw.7y0@austin.ibm.com> <1992Dec18.031152.21351@cbnews.cb.att.com> <BzGMLp.vxL@austin.ibm.com> <1992Dec18.151156.25229@tc.cornell.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec18.151156.25229@tc.cornell.edu>,
- shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) wrote:
- >
- > In article <BzGMLp.vxL@austin.ibm.com> alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss) writes:
- > >Figure out a way
- > >to make the new language attractive to use (instead of a grim
- > >faced moralistic necessity), and people will jump on it quickly.
- > >For example, if its hip to use gender-neutral/feminist-sensitive
- > >language ......
- >
- > It is. Where does that leave you?
-
- Only hip amongst the totalitarian tinkerbells of soc.motss. But
- then, any system of language which allows me to refer to Melinda
- as "it" and still be "hip" can't be all bad.
-
- *X*
- (I suspect it will tire of this thread quickly, and it certainly
- won't read anything I have to say, but it is still worth while
- to take a shot at it whenever possible)
-