Re: Gender Neutral Names, was Sally back, and conlang survey part 1 and 2
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 20:11 |
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On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 06:20:46 -0800 Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>
writes:
> I don't know about all of you, but the term "fireman" clearly
> indicates
> someone who puts out fires, while the term "fireperson" seems to
> indicate an arsonist to me.
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The "sex-fair" version of "fireman" is |firefighter|, not |fireperson|.
-Stephen (Steg), who has a final in this stuff on thursday :-P