[ExI] star trek

Wed Feb 8 23:49:35 UTC 2017

From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace
Subject: Re: [ExI] star trek

adrian wrote:

>>…updated it from "no man" to "no one".  (Ladies can go too.)

>…It used to be that 'man' referred to humanity, male and female.  I suppose the feminists have destroyed that usage, though I have not seen 'manhole' turned to 'personhole'…

Luxury!  In my day, we had “mailman” but now it’s personperson.

spike

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