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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Nomenclature - G/H/L
Message-ID: <674@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 18:38:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 18:38:37 1985
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Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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Summary: 

In article <3507@decwrl.UUCP> peterson@vaxwrk.DEC (Bob Peterson) writes:
>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.

I think the opposite of "straight" is "bent", which is slang for homosexual
in England and Austrailia but not commonly heard in the U.S.

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