From: utzoo!laura
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: chairPERSON, postPESON 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2259
Posted: Wed Jul  7 01:18:03 1982
Received: Wed Jul  7 01:18:03 1982

hmm.  i dont have any strong feelings on the matter, but can bet that it
would be easier to 'PERSON' existing words than to do the alternative:

It is hereby decreed that the word 'man' is strictly neuter and 
equivalent to the word 'person'.  Now what are you guys going to think
up to call yourselves???

laura creighton
decvax!utzoo!laura

p.s.
Personally, I find 'chairperson' a rather ugly word to have to listen to
much like 'functionality' and 'burglerizing'  but then language changes whether I like it or not.