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