Re: CHAT: Homo Sapiens (was: fiery spirits)
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 23, 2003, 5:45 |
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Tristan McLeay wrote:
> > Sure, but that's not what Ray Brown was talking about. We also need one
> > for "female person" while we're at it.
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> Woman unambiguously fits the bill, doesn't it? Perhaps I've misunderstood
> Ray's post or something.
Woman is "*adult* female person". For that matter, in my dialect, at
least, "man" is pretty unambiguously "adult male person", if used to
refer to an individual. And the generic sense is pretty uncommon
anymore.
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