From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!rdu Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: "chairperson" Article-I.D.: pur-ee.390 Posted: Wed Jul 7 20:18:51 1982 Received: Thu Jul 8 01:59:08 1982 How can we get such a drab response from a member of the linguistically oppressed majority? "i dont have any strong feelings on the matter..." Sadly, this is just another of the personifold personifestations of the control our sexist language exerts on us. A truly lapersontable phenopersonon: a normally argupersontative woperson whipped into submission. Alas/Alad! This is indeed a sad compersontary on our depersonted society and on the fundapersontal cultural fragpersontation caused by gendervolent megalopersoniacs who have persondated our nopersonclature over thousands of years. There is only one solution: an personcott of such inhupersone words. Inevitably, some will charge we are persongling the Royal Person's English. "Ah," they will depersond, "where is the euphony, the ropersonce?" What a pile of personure! Do they think words are invented for ornapersontation? -- M. Raabe (pur-ee!rdu)