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Thread #81351   Message #1489033
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
20-May-05 - 07:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Nautical PCness...well blow me down...
Subject: RE: BS: Nautical PCness...well blow me down...
When I was at University of Qld in the 70/80's, one of the lecturers was trying to promote use of the word 'esh' as a word inclusive of both the genders and neither.

Never heard of it had you?


Then about the same time some other genius produced the following train of 'logic'...

We cannot use the word 'woman' because it contains the word 'man'. You might think that we could substitute the item 'person' instead of 'man' to produce 'woperson', but you see, this word also contains the male word 'son'. So we shall substitute the neutral word 'one' instead, thus giving us the Politically Correct Construction


'Woperone'

!!!!