At 7:11 AM +0200 2/1/12, John Brownie wrote:
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>Not to mention that there are two Latin/Greek terms underlying the 
>homo- prefix, the term for male and the term for same. Homosexual 
>has nothing to do with male, but means "same-sex". Changing it is as 
>bizarre as trying to change the "man" in "manuscript", where it 
>refers to "hand".

Gawd -- I forgot that part of it; I knew something was nagging t the 
bag of my head, but I couldn't think of it.

>So let's all start speaking Finnish, where there is only one 
>distinction in third person pronouns, animate/inanimate (although 
>popular usage is scrapping the animate version)!

I'll stick with your average Austronesian language, thanks, piram!

Cheers, geoff