zbdent
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Wed Jul-16-03 07:49 PM
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Who here remembers "perits"? |
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Showing my age (40, just last month).
I remember reading an article (in one of those "Weekly Reader" type magazines for kids) about a movement to replace the words which could connotate gender/sex with "it".
Person would become perit. (It replacing the sex reference).
The article pointed out that a mailman would then be referred to as a peritperit.
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Ellen Forradalom
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Wed Jul-16-03 08:37 PM
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1. Puts the dick back in ridiculous |
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I'm the same age. I remember a certain zeal for language reform in some quarters. One woman changed her name from Cooperman to Cooperperson.
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