Re: Optimum number of symbols,
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 26, 2002, 9:30 |
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En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
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> IIRC, there is some pressure in Quebec (and I saw this a long time
> ago, so details are fuzzy and may be wrong) to use, e.g. "professeur"
> as an epicene noun, "le professeur"/"la professeure", because
> "professeuse" had the historical meaning "wife of professor".
"professeuse"? Well, maybe it is a correct word in Quebec, but in "French"
French AFAIK it has never existed. I cannot find this word in dictionaries nor
ever heard it. "professeure" is indeed the proposal of the French feminists
too, but for the only reason that "professeur" never had a feminine form.
Christophe.
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