Re: CHAT: Homo Sapiens (was: fiery spirits)
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 26, 2003, 16:41 |
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Joe scripsit:
> I suggest that Males are referred to as Wepmen, and we adopt 'man' as the
> gender-neutral term.
In David Brin's Uplift universe, the members of H. sapiens are called
"men" (sg. "man"), and "mel" and "fem", with regular plurals, are the
words for males and females. "Chimp:chim:chimmie" are used similarly
for intelligent superchimpanzees.
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