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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Sexist language
- Message-ID: <12212@sorley.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 16:41:14 GMT
- References: <92355.210842HERSCH@auvm.american.edu> <BzLCtr.3MI@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Dec21.224543.26671@Princeton.EDU>
- Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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- In article <1992Dec21.224543.26671@Princeton.EDU> mikulska@astro.princeton.edu (Margaret Mikulska) writes:
- [to Mandar]
- >First of all, [...] This alone deserves capital punishment.
- >
- >Second, [...]
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- So how shall we proceed about executing Mandar twice? Shall he be
- hanged for the first crime and then drawn and quartered for the second,
- or maybe simply put into two people's kill files?
-
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- `D'ye mind tellin me whit the two o ye are gaun oan aboot?' (The Glasgow
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu) Gospel)
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