Re: Language use and hypersensitivity

Subject: Re: Language use and hypersensitivity
From: Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 13:31:25 -0700

I'll worry about "master/slave," "abort," and even "subjunctive" in
technical writing when dog breeders get self-conscious about "bitch."

--Wayne
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