Message Number: 492
From: Daniel Reeves <dreeves Æ umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:15:01 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Yootles, Capitalism, Futarchy
cute :)

I find it fascinating though that "one man, one vote" doesn't sound as 
bigoted to you as "one caucasian, one vote" would.

My conjecture is that it all comes down to linguistics and our ages (30 & 
81).  The English language (as always) is changing and the two of us speak 
very slightly different versions of it.  "Manhole cover" is a part of the 
language for both of us and would sound pretty forced if we replaced it 
(not that I wouldn't -- I'm all about proactively changing the language). 
"One man, one vote", however, left the language somewhere in between your 
acquisition of English and mine.


--- \/	 FROM Andrew Reeves AT 06.08.31 10:44 (Today)	\/ ---

>   I stand corrected on my very injudicious "One man, one vote" quote.
> Of course, as Danny knows best, anything worth doing is worth doing
> thoroughly, or as critics would say, "to the extreme". That applies to
> the repetition of all political womantras, criticism of all election
> womaneuvers and other womanipulations, or the hertoric reference to our
> founding mother Jefferdaughter, and other such horsewomanure.
>   By the way, how do you womanage your life in Womanhattan? I heard
> there was a large herpanic population (or should I say momulation?)
> down there. I suggest you start working on a womanual of the new and
> politically correct Newspeak in which I'd love to be your assistant.
>   Love, GGPA (I'd love to feminize that but I can't).

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Withinne a thousand yer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thenketh hem, and yet they spake hem so
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