Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vaxwrk!peterson From: peterson@vaxwrk.DEC (Bob Peterson) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Nomenclature - G/H/L Message-ID: <3507@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 08:38:34 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3507 Posted: Thu Aug 8 08:38:34 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 00:37:22 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 8 And by the same token I object to "straight". But not too strenously since my alternative "het" is kinda derogatory. "Straight" implies "right" and not-straight not-right, in my ear. And while we're starting a flame, "gay" itself bothers me in that it has been used for some MANY meanings thru the centuries, everything I hear from wicked to frivolous to happy to homosexual, and not in that order necessarily. I have no useful alternatives tho. \bob