Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:
> 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.
My inner eyes are currently seeing a particularly fanatic feminist getting
extremely annoyed by the fact that _chimmie_ looks to be derived from _chim_.
Andreas