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Thread #39340   Message #560214
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
27-Sep-01 - 05:33 PM
Thread Name: Help: Turn Back O Man - inclusive language?
Subject: RE: Help: Turn Back O Man - inclusive language?
Church Latin is pretty straightyforward really.

But the point is, in Latin this silly argument couldn't arise, because the word for male human being is not the same as the word for human being.

This sort of thing doesn't seem to worry people so much in a folk setting. Oh Sinner Man I don't think I've ever heard any one saying that ought to be amended before it is fit to sing.