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  1. Xref: sparky soc.college:5833 alt.usage.english:9821
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu!meachem
  3. From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
  4. Newsgroups: soc.college,alt.usage.english
  5. Subject: Re: Sexist language
  6. Message-ID: <BzMBAr.8o@acsu.buffalo.edu>
  7. Date: 21 Dec 92 16:32:50 GMT
  8. References: <92356.104630HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
  9. Sender: nntp@acsu.buffalo.edu
  10. Organization: UB
  11. Lines: 16
  12. Nntp-Posting-Host: lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu
  13.  
  14. In article <92356.104630HERSCH@auvm.american.edu> HERSCH@auvm.american.edu writes:
  15.  
  16. >Would you refer to the well-known Bob Dylan song "It Isn't Me,
  17.                                                             ^^
  18. Now, Herschel. . . just a moment's thought would make you realise that this
  19. should be "It Isn't *I*, Babe"!
  20.  
  21. >Babe"? Or the Jagger-Richard(s) lyric "I can't get any satisfaction"?
  22. >When you quote (and you did put this stuff in quotation marks,
  23. >followed by the attribution to Lennon), you have a duty to do
  24. >so exactly. I should think this would be an even stronger imperative
  25. >when you're quoting someone of whom you profess yourself to be
  26. >a big "fan".
  27.  
  28. --jm
  29. Dylan Fan Extraordinaire!
  30.