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2019-07-24 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Berkeley political correctness means we’d get ‘Person-hattan’

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Posted by Fred 2019-07-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Is a "Ladies' Man" now only called a "Persons' Person" in Newspeak?

Posted by magpie 2019-07-24 00:31|| 2019-07-24 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Here and I had thought they were going to go for "Manhatin' ".

Posted by ed in texas 2019-07-24 05:14|| 2019-07-24 05:14|| Front Page Top

#3 This is why university basement offices next to the leaky sewer pipes were created.

Posted by Angaiting Thising6508 2019-07-24 05:24|| 2019-07-24 05:24|| Front Page Top

#4 I went through this bs years ago when chair men became chairs.

You can't use PERSON because it contains the male "son" to be gender neutral you have to use progeny, as in perprogeny.

That's so awkward even proggies will get tired of it.

Posted by AlanC 2019-07-24 08:20|| 2019-07-24 08:20|| Front Page Top

#5 I was under the impression that the suffix 'man' in words like 'postman' comes from the German indefinite pronoun 'man' meaning 'one' and is already gender neutral. Example: One often sees them - Man sieht Sie oft.

I wonder who would be more surprised and appalled at our modern world, Orwell or Huxley?

Posted by SteveS 2019-07-24 10:15|| 2019-07-24 10:15|| Front Page Top

#6 So is woman going to become woperson ?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-07-24 11:04|| 2019-07-24 11:04|| Front Page Top

#7 SteveS - two 'n's.

Mann
( Mann(e)s, Männer) Substantiv (m)
a erwachsene männliche Person

German-English Dictionary

Posted by Bobby 2019-07-24 13:17|| 2019-07-24 13:17|| Front Page Top

#8 #7 SteveS - two 'n's.

Doh! I knew that looked funny. A long time since I spoke Krautlich.

As for "woman" becoming "woperson", wouldn't the correct spelling be "woe-person"?

Posted by SteveS 2019-07-24 14:33|| 2019-07-24 14:33|| Front Page Top

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