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- From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
- Subject: Re: girl/lady/female boy/guy/male
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- References: <97303@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov13.202622.13922@b8.b8.ingr.com> <97570@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 20:50:41 GMT
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- In article <97570@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov13.202622.13922@b8.b8.ingr.com> larry@b8.b8.ingr.com (Larry Billings) writes:
- >
- >>> How about humanity instead of humankind? Seems a bit more elegant.
- >
- >>Despite our best efforts IT still sneaks in there...
- >
- >Dad-gummit, you're right. We'll just have to use "people."
-
- Too late; "people" now lacks sufficient specificity. About 20 years ago,
- Geoffrey H. Bourne, then the director of the Yerkes Regional Primate Center,
- wrote a book entitled _The Ape People_. He made it clear that his title did
- not refer to the hominine employees, but to the subjects of the various
- studies. Also, Hugo van Lawick has recently released a videotape entitled
- _People Of the Forest_. Not a single hominine appears in it, though; it's
- about the chimpanzees that Jane Goodall has been studying (well, a hominine
- named Donald Sutherland narrates it).
-
- -- Herb Huston
- -- huston@access.digex.com
-