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Subject:Re: Language use and hypersensitivity From:Matt Ion <soundy -at- ROGERS -dot- WAVE -dot- CA> Date:Fri, 19 Sep 1997 07:46:54 -0800
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997 13:31:25 -0700, Wayne Douglass wrote:
>I'll worry about "master/slave," "abort," and even "subjunctive" in
>technical writing when dog breeders get self-conscious about "bitch."
I've always wondered if I could, in clear conscience, tell my pastor that
my dog is a son of a...
Your friend and mine,
Matt
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