ramona@nsc.uucp (Ramona Wu) (09/08/83)
NO! NO! NO! woman does not get changed to woperson nor to woperit. I use wopeople, I know it's plural but at least its fair. :-) RAM-unit.
nathan@orstcs.UUCP (09/13/83)
#R:nsc:-38500:orstcs:15700007:000:635 orstcs!nathan Sep 12 21:23:00 1983 re: woperSON I had just settled on "wo-per-offspring". This is singular or plural by context, and may be abbreviated in conversation, "wipperoff". The abbreviation has a delightfully avian flavor. We can expec to see shortly such organizations as the "Wipperoff Christian Temperance Union", or the "Society of Wipperoff Engineers". We must be careful, here, not to imply the wrong idea. Society at large must first be educated in the meaning of our terminology, so that it does not assume we are discussing sadomasochistic technology, rather than the enlightenment to which we hope others will aspire. dismounting, anon.
amg@pyuxn.UUCP (09/16/83)
Wo-per-offspring? Wo-per-child is shorter and easier to pronounce. Alan Gross
decot@cwruecmp.UUCP (Dave Decot) (09/21/83)
How about Wo-per-snapper?