The Internet Virus--A Commentary

[Pete Holsberg]

In article <1988Nov9.200939.6069 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
=From a handy dictionary:
=
="man, n. [pl. men]  1, a mammal of the genus Homo.  2, a person; a human
=being.  3, the human race; mankind..."
=
=If they have non-human staff, then I can see the legitimacy of the objection!
=
=(I have no quarrel with people who prefer to avoid the use of masculine
=words as generic forms, provided that readability does not suffer, but
=criticizing people for using legitimate English is ridiculous.)

=The Earth is our mother.        |    Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                                            ^^^^^^^
                                                            
And when someone says, "Will all Americans please stand up.", do you
leap to your feet?  Yes or no?



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