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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
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