From: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!wagner Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: words Article-I.D.: utcsstat.237 Posted: Tue Jul 6 17:45:16 1982 Received: Tue Jul 6 19:30:26 1982 References: watmath.2942 Since we seem to have gotten into spelling reform, what do people on the net think of other language reforms, and particularly, some of the more drastic language reforms being proposed by some womens groups. They suggest that our thinking is sexist in part because our language is unbalanced, i.e. chairMAN, postMAN, etc. Some of the ones I know insist on chairPERSON, postPERSON (and the best one, mailPERSON - which sounds like it should be reformed to PERSONPERSON!). Michael Wagner, UTCS