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Just strike the offending words altogether. We've been calling documents
"docs" forever, anyway. Documentation would just become docutation.
Women would become wo and men would just cease to exist. :-)
Bev
(Eric must be on vacation)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Browne [SMTP:sbrowne -at- UNICOMP -dot- NET]
>
> Arlen P Walker wrote:
> > >excuse me, docuPERSONtation?
> >
> > I'm sorry, but we here at the Linguistic Prohibition Of Literal
> Inscriptions
> > Causing Exclusion (AKA the Linguistic POLICE) must protest the
> gender-specific
> > term referenced above. It contains the word "SON" which improperly
> specifices
> > a male offspring. The correct term is "child." Therefore we insist this
> be
> > rewritten as: docuperchildtation.
>
> I take great offence at what the Linguistic POLICE have just suggested.
> "Child"
> is *NOT* the correct term for "SON". As the 30 year old son of my mother,
> I am
> highly offended that you would consider me a child!
>
> Perhaps docuperdecendanttation? docuperoffspringtation?
>
>
