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- From: lindberg@PSYCH.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU
- Subject: Re: Sexism and language a la Preferenti
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- Steve (and other semantically inclined folk):
- Here are Webster's definitions:
- Female: (n) "A human being of the sex that becomes pregnant and gives
- birth to young".
- Male: (adj) "Of or belonging to the sex that begets young by fertilizing
- the female".
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- I'll reiterate my disclaimer: The implication that females are -by
- definition- human, while males are not necessarily so, is Webster's, not
- mine. I am aware that other species have females too. I have nothing
- against female (or male) penguins or dolphins.
- So, are adjectives higher than nouns in the grammatical hierarchy?
- Nangel (a not-yet-humorless feminist)
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