Re: CHAT: Homo Sapiens (was: fiery spirits)
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 26, 2003, 5:12 |
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On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> _wer_ on its own would add a third homophone
> for those many to whom _where_ and _were_
> are homophonous.
Who would these be? If 'wer' were pronounced as in 'werewolf', it'd join
'where' and 'we're' and 'wear' for me, but as 'were', it's safe. How about
goom/goum? (from guma).
> What's wrong with _human_ as a noun, BTW?
It's just wrong. One simply doesn't say 'he's a human' any more than 'can
I have a sugar?'. You'd say 'he's a person'. As far as I'm concerned,
there's nothing wrong with person in that context, but for a lot of
people, 'person' means an intelligent (biological?) member of society or
something like that. Though seeing as we're playing with adding new words,
we may as well play with changing how 'human' works :)
--
Tristan.
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