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Re: Abolish antisexism rules! Long live the equivalence of people!



>> "j" == john  <john@dhh.gt.org> writes:

j> I agree.  I was merely offering Feynman's technique as an alternative to
j> the extremely ugly and awkward practice of blindly substituting 'person'
j> for 'man'.

Yeah. In German, you have "man" with meaning of "one" as in "one can
...". Of cause "Man" also means (engl.) "man". 

So some demand, that one uses the phrase "mensch kann ..." (human can)
instead of "man kann ..." X-/

Just my 0,02DM about raping a language.

Ciao,
	Martin


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