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Subject:RE: Write differently for women? From:bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 31 May 2001 16:22:02 -0500
Ah, but is it a given that the wife actually lives with the husband? She
could possibly maintain a separate residence in another city or another part
of the same city. Then she would not be the killer's neighbor but would
still be the wife of the killer's neighbor.
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From: Lin Sims [mailto:linda -dot- sims -at- verizon -dot- net]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 4:13 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Write differently for women?
> sexist speech. As writer Deborah Cameron points out, the sentence "The
> man went berserk and killed his neighbor's wife" is unobjectionable on
> its surface. But stop to think: why "his neighbor's wife" instead of
> "one of his neighbors"?
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