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From: gmb@natcorp.ox.ac.uk (Glynis Baguley)
Subject: Re: "gay" (was: Re: Gay Teenagers)
Message-ID: <1995Mar16.105230.5641@onionsnatcorp.ox.ac.uk>
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 10:52:30 GMT
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In article <D54vI0.3MM@zeno.fit.edu> stevens@galileo.pss.fit.edu (Luke Stevens) writes:
> 
> I like to use correct constructions that annoy others just for the sake of the
> opportunity to correct their understanding of English.  If a feminist gets mad
> at me for calling her "he", "freshman", or "chairman", I know that I have 
> centuries of precedent and agreement of experts on my side and can defend my
> usage better than she can defend her objection to it.  
> 
> 
> ------_/ -------------  Luke J. Stevens  -------  stevens@pss.fit.edu  -------
>   ___/`=        "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool
> ~(,__.)          than to speak out and remove all doubt."
>  />  />                                     -- Abraham Lincoln


In view of this nice .sig, presumably the preceding paragraph is
intended ironically? Well, that's how I read it.


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