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Re: CHAT: Homo Sapiens (was: fiery spirits)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, October 27, 2003, 19:53
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