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To: Rambi who wrote (663)	1/9/1998 2:11:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) of 4710

Penni, now that I've had a few minutes to dissipate my immediate and inchoate frustration with a peer of proven erudition who would actually seek to support this lingual poopiness, I would like to take the time to present a more considered rebuttal (while rolling with porcine delight in topheavy sentences). AHD has ADHD, or something!! My Webster's New College, which I (arbitrarily) uphold as a more faithful arbiter of the mother tongue, lists gender as pertaining only to categories, mostly grammatical. Curiously, it does show the phrase gender gap as the next entry. I find the use of "gender" as a substitute for "sex" to be slipshod stewardship of the language. As such, I will oppose it. I wil speak against what I perceive as a dilution of our verbal heritage in the service of an ill-defined sociopolitical delicacy. Last and not least, I stich out my tongue and make rude wet noises to underline the fundamental righteousness of my position. Pbtphttbtpht.

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