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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (696)1/12/1998 5:38:00 PM
From: Janice Shell  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4710
 
I've asked this before, and will ask it once again: why are dolls for boys called "action figures"? Barbie never sees any action?

Gimme a break.



To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (696)1/12/1998 9:28:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 4710
 
Alex,

>> I have often resisted the urge to refer to him as Him-Man when
the sentence seemed to call for it.

But that pronoun-noun fusion seems to transcend case, as in "He spotted the she-wolf on the hill." ?her-wolf?

Jack


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