laura (07/07/82)
hmm. i dont have any strong feelings on the matter, but can bet that it would be easier to 'PERSON' existing words than to do the alternative: It is hereby decreed that the word 'man' is strictly neuter and equivalent to the word 'person'. Now what are you guys going to think up to call yourselves??? laura creighton decvax!utzoo!laura p.s. Personally, I find 'chairperson' a rather ugly word to have to listen to much like 'functionality' and 'burglerizing' <what ever was wrong with burgling??> but then language changes whether I like it or not.
thomas (07/07/82)
No, it should be chairPERCHILD! (Son, is after all, sexist). (Or maybe chairCRITTER - after, assuming a human is chauvinistic!) =Spencer
jcwinterton (07/13/82)
Let us all ignore this nonsense and perhaps it will go away when the grease for the media hacks goes away. John Winterton.