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To: lentulusgracchus

“wymyn”....thusly petlled to avoid the integration of the word MEN....Im thinking

there was a columist in hyper “ liberal” San Francisco wjho once wrote a piece about the problematic use of the word PERSON....in that It included the MALE...term...SON...and the feminists might soon be offended by that...


26 posted on 11/09/2014 10:49:28 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: MeshugeMikey

“Person” < Latin “persona” < Etruscan “phersuna” < Greek “prosopon” = “theatrical mask” < “pros”, “in front of” + “ops” = “face”.


34 posted on 11/10/2014 9:57:52 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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