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- From: cholette@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Cholette Martin)
- Newsgroups: soc.college,alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Sexist language
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.155119.4419@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:51:19 GMT
- References: <BzL3MK.JuF@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Dec21.154031.13712@cc.umontreal.ca> <1992Dec23.063815.433@news.eng.convex.com>
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- In article <1992Dec23.063815.433@news.eng.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
- >:>> "Ask your SO whether they're interested."
- >: This sentence is improper, when I ask a friend if their Significant
- >: Other is comming, I know what sex his girlfriend is! :-)
- >
- >Apparently you hang out with a rather conservative crowd. Don't assume
- >you know the gender of someone's SO.
-
- You can read? I said 'a' friend. I have many friends some of them are
- homosexual. Besides the fact that even if I do hang out with a 'conservative'
- (a normative quality, and something that we can always argue about... I say I am
- not conservative but to your standards (warped as they may or may not be) I am
- 'Conservativ Man' (tm)) crowd it doesn't change the fact that the sentence is
- unecessarily ambiguous.
-
- >
- >The sentence is not improper -- you spelling of 'coming', however, is.
- !!??^??!!
- Well it seems that we are not all perfect. But *I* understand that mistakes
- can made and not noticed. *I* know that while trying to answer a post people
- get excited and start typing a little faster than they should and that they
- may make a few mistakes. But hey that is 'Conservative Man' (tm) for you!
-
- Happy Holidays,
- Michael Bertrand,
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