emrath (04/27/83)
#R:flairvax:-11600:uiucdcs:31600013:000:50 uiucdcs!emrath Apr 26 06:26:00 1983 How 'bout having femailmen deliver the mail. :-)
wombat (04/27/83)
#R:flairvax:-11600:uicsl:16400003:000:868 uicsl!wombat Apr 26 13:11:00 1983 Do you suppose that the reason man can mean male person or all persons is because back in the days of Old English women weren't really considered persons, and the man=all persons definition was accurate? And why the distinction between woman and man(all), but no distinction between man(male) and man(all)? Don't rely so heavily on what dictionaries say- just because the Webster's sitting on the desk here says that 'mistress' means 'woman who has power ... as, the female head of a household; a woman who employs or supervises servants' or 'woman who has achieved mastery in some field' if you are told that Fanny Friendly is Joe Blow's mistress, what are you going to think? Children don't learn the etymology of a word when they learn the word, and they are the hope for equality -- most grownups have already made up their minds, for or against. Wombat
wombat (04/29/83)
#R:rabbit:-138700:uicsl:16400004:000:137 uicsl!wombat Apr 28 08:35:00 1983 The only problem with your language is that uicsl!wombat is a "she" and not a "he." Wombat decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat
wombat (04/29/83)
#R:rabbit:-138700:uiucuxc:22800009:000:69 uiucuxc!wombat Apr 29 00:02:00 1983 Sorry your both wrong, "wombat" is an "it" not a "he" or a "she" .
wombat (04/30/83)
#R:rabbit:-138700:uicsl:16400006:000:247 uicsl!wombat Apr 29 10:34:00 1983 Perhaps uiucuxc!wombat is an it, but uicsl!wombat is definitely a she. (Are you 'the wombat of the west'?) uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat (And for rabbit!jj: just because you use entemology to mean etymology doesn't mean the rest of the world will.)