Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5g!jdh From: jdh@hou5g.UUCP (Julia Harper) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.women Subject: Re: Gender-specific responses to s/he Message-ID: <497@hou5g.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 09:32:04 EST Article-I.D.: hou5g.497 Posted: Thu Jan 17 09:32:04 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 02:39:57 EST References: <641@uwmacc.UUCP>, <980@utastro.UUCP> <5242@duke.UUCP>, <630@voder.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.nlang:2428 net.women:4125 more about German: the way they say "one" is "man". in German: man = Mann, woman = frau one = man If you read feminist literature in German, you'll discover some writers substitute "frau" everywhere one would normally use "man". (Germans use sentences with the word "one" ("man") much more often then one sees it in English.) -- Julia Harper [ihnp4,ariel]!hou5g!jdh