Re: Sally back, and conlang survey part 1 and 2
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 20:12 |
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On Wednesday 11 December 2002 02:17 am, you wrote:
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> * Steve Mirsky recently suggested that the ethnonym "Turkmens" be replaced
> by "Turkpersons" on gender equality grounds. I see no reason we shouldn't
> grant the same courtesy to the French people. In prusuit of the same noble
> goal, China's official language will henceforth be refered to as
> "Persondarin". (And yes, Mirsky was joking.)
(That's a one-eyed smiley, isn't it?)
Whyever stop with that? Can't you see that "Person" contains a reference to
the male offspring, thus discriminating against women ;) ? "Person" on
gender equality grounds, should be replaced with "perdescendent". thus we
have, "Turkperdescendents", and "Perdescendentdarin", but let us not forget:
"Woman" - this _must_ be replaced with "Woperdescendent" to remove the feeling
of verbal discrimination many feminists suffer from - and give their male
colleagues something to laugh about (surreptiously, of course ;^) !
Wesley Parish
--
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."