I don't think we have the werewithall to continue this conversation. - Erik On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Cheryl Rogers wrote:
We are **so** off-topic here, but in Old English, the word "man" did indeed mean "human." A "wereman" was a male human and a "wifman" was a female human.Hence also the origins of the words "werewolf" and "wife." Cheryl Karen Randall wrote:I guess I can accept the term "man" as a generic form of "human" without it having any need for gender specific eqipment.<g> Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com> To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:49 AM Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] 2005?I agree that awkward newly constructed terms are nice. Luckily they are needed, "people" and other perfecdtly ordianry substitutions work just as well. sh --- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:Sorry, I AM a woman and "peoplepower" is just WAY to PC for me._______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm_______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm_______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm
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