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Re: Political Correctness Re: Manmonth or Peoplemonth?
Subject:Re: Political Correctness Re: Manmonth or Peoplemonth? From:CASSIN Gilles <GCassin -at- MEGA -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:13:08 +0100
Brierley, Sean wrote: If I read "four manmonths" to finish a job, for
some reason I picture
hairy elephants moving logs, but perhaps that's because I rarely run
into
the term <g>.
That's what I pictured, first. Yet (there are still 36 unread messages
avaiting me), "month" should be replaced by "9,192,631,770 cycles of a
frequency that resonates with an atom of cesium multplied by 60e2x24
+sthing", which would be less Earth-centered.
Personally, I love the term hangperson.
"Le rouge est une couleur proche du bleu, mais pas trop" P. Desproges
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