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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
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Subject: Re: girl vs. woman -- causality; changing attitude via language
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Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 20:34:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 10 20:34:33 1984
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> > From rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Thu Sep 27 15:36:43 1984
> > It's a serious mistake to try to change people's attitudes by changing
> > language.  That's getting the causality backwards...
> ...
> ...I agree that it would be better to broaden
> the attitude directly instead of attacking it through the language, but I
> don't think the lingual attack is a mistake.  It raises consciousness.
>         -IAN!  (Ian! D. Allen)      University of Waterloo

I should have phrased that differently--it would have been better to say
that you can't change attitudes "...JUST by changing language..."
Attitudes and language interact, of course...my point was that the language
doesn't DETERMINE attitudes; what I avoided saying was that it INFLUENCES
them.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Relax...don't worry...have a homebrew.