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214 |
From: |
Nathan Binkert <binkertn Æ umich.edu> |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:27:14 -0400 (EDT) |
Subject: |
request for linguist... |
> Btw, am I the only to whom "woman" or "women" used as an adjective is like
> fingernails on a blackboard? Like "woman governor"? Could our resident
> linguist comment on this? Is it new? It sounds utterly wrong to my ear.
> But I suppose what really bothers me about it is that it's not symmetric.
> You can't say "man governor". (Or even "man nurse".)
My dad is a professor of linguistics actually. Like to comment dad?
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