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- From: idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: More words stuff
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:12:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.120723.19895@thelema.uucp> STella@thelema.uucp (STella) writes:
- >In article <9212230237.AA03758@pizzabox.demon.co.uk> gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
- >> >Tim, Tim; glass houses, dear friend. "A hysterical... media"?
- >
- >> Kay, Kay, Kay; you're sweet, you're adorable, and you're wrong.
- >>
- >> "Media" is a collective noun, which may be referenced in the
- >> singular _or_ the plural, depending on context...
- >>
- >>Surely the distinction is that the 'new' meaning of media is mass noun
- >>(whereas 'medium' was a count noun) and it's *still* wrong to use 'A'
- >>as a quantifier?
- >
- >Duh, I kinda thought, coming into this thread partway through, that
- >someone must be flipping shit for using such a sexist word as
- >"hysterical". As a rule of thumb, substitute testicular.
-
- Nononono. The male analogue of the uterus (= Gk 'husteron') isn't
- the testes. I can't remember where it is, but it's probably one of
- those things that no-one other than urologists has ever heard of, like
- the bulbo-urethral glands, or some other stuff. It's there, I've read
- a book on human reproductive embryology, I just don't have it in my
- head.
-
- Kay
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