Re: New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)

From: Carol Mulholland <carol@flagship-pbm.co.uk>

Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 00:01:03 +0000

David desJardins wrote:

> Let me get this straight.  Your assertion is that the Greek and Roman
> civilizations were free of sexism, so that anything that was introduced
> thousands of years ago must necessarily be gender neutral?
>
> I'd question your grasp of history, if that's what you think.

Nice to hear from you, David. Maybe I wasn't clear, sorry. I'm saying
that the groups into which Greek/Latin nouns fall weren't created because
their speakers believed everything was male/female/neuter. There just
happened to be 3 groups. When later Gk philosophers tried to understand
their own language (thus inventing the concept of grammar), they decided
to call the groups masculine/feminine/neutral: maybe they should have
chosen alpha, beta, gamma, but hey, they were only philosophers...

Sorry, my fault, this is way off-topic. I just think we'd be better off
keeping words like "Man" and "Mankind". Think of what we're losing - "Of
one's first disobedience..."; "The proper study of onekind is one....";
"A one's a one for a' that..."

Carol

References

Re: New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)
Carol Mulholland <carol@flagship-pbm.co.uk>
Sat, 09 Nov 2002 09:32:51 +0000
Re: New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)
"DJ" <flouric@highstream.net>
Sat, 09 Nov 2002 14:50:41 +0000
Re: New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)
Carol Mulholland <carol@flagship-pbm.co.uk>
Sat, 09 Nov 2002 14:59:09 +0000
Re: New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)
David desJardins <desj@math.berkeley.edu>
Sat, 09 Nov 2002 22:15:48 +0000
New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 08 Nov 2002 20:14:37 +0000

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Re: New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)
Carol Mulholland <carol@flagship-pbm.co.uk>
Sat, 09 Nov 2002 09:32:51 +0000
Re: New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)
"DJ" <flouric@highstream.net>
Sat, 09 Nov 2002 14:50:41 +0000
Re: New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)
Carol Mulholland <carol@flagship-pbm.co.uk>
Sat, 09 Nov 2002 14:59:09 +0000
Re: New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)
David desJardins <desj@math.berkeley.edu>
Sat, 09 Nov 2002 22:15:48 +0000
New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 08 Nov 2002 20:14:37 +0000