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- Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:46:29 EST
- From: <HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Message-ID: <92356.104630HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Newsgroups: soc.college,alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Sexist language
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- In article <BzLCtr.3MI@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>,
- mmmirash@banshee.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) says:
- >
- >Awwww....I was just changing the sentences to make them sound more
- >correct, grammatically. The essence of what he wished to convey
- >remains the same. Next you'll be asking me to *sing* it because
- >mere words may not convey it as effectively as the song itself. ;)
- >Hey! I am a big fan of the Beatles and of John Lennon, too!
- >
-
- Would you refer to the well-known Bob Dylan song "It Isn't Me,
- Babe"? Or the Jagger-Richard(s) lyric "I can't get any satisfaction"?
- When you quote (and you did put this stuff in quotation marks,
- followed by the attribution to Lennon), you have a duty to do
- so exactly. I should think this would be an even stronger imperative
- when you're quoting someone of whom you profess yourself to be
- a big "fan".
-
- H.
-
- Herschel Browne
- "The" American University
-