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Re: punctuated abbreviations // was english spelling reform

From:Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>
Date:Sunday, October 20, 2002, 2:40
--- Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote:

> I'm sure someone has seriously proposed married and > unmarried male > forms -
Probably. I've never heard of one, though.
> It's not as if there's anyone > preventing you from > using new word,
Of course not. I use the "new" word, Ms., for married women as well as unknowns. That is, I take the PC term and turn it around on them.
> and lobbying for their introction on > forms and in > dictionaries, but there is not to knowledge any > demand from men to be > able to express their marital status in an > honorific, while there was > a demand from women _not_ to express this.
Mind you, I never said there was a demand. I rather doubt there was much of a "demand" in 1949 when "MZ" came about either.
> As to a the matter of an asymmetry in "PCism" - I'm > speculating here, > but might it not be the cas that radicals consider > "Miss" and "Mrs" to > be entirely unnecessary, leaving the preferred > honorifics at a > symmetrical pairing of "Mr" and "Ms"?
Possibly. Though I'd suspect there's more of a female victimisation thing going on. Padraic. -- Your dialect may vary. Any and all statements made from this location should be understood to emanate from the dialect of the writer, unless otherwise specified. ===== il dunar-li c' argeont ayn politig; celist il pozponer le mbutheor ayn backun gras. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/

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