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Re: Odd orthography)

From:Tommie Powell <tommiepowell@...>
Date:Thursday, September 24, 1998, 23:14
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From: Josh Brandt-Young <neonwave7@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: Odd orthography)


>On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:18:03 -0700 JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON ><mpearson@...> writes: >
> >Speaking of political correctness, here's something that my philosophy >teacher brought up a few days ago that I thought was quite funny. > >Beginning word: "humanity" >Obviously sexist. We have to get "man" out of there. > >Second stage: "hupersonity" >Well, why is it "son," huh? Why not "daughter?" More male chauvinism. > >Last Stage: "huperbeingity." >
And of course we will have to get rid of the "Apostrophy-S" ('s) that we use to show possession, since it is a contraction of "his". What should we replace that with?