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Subject:Re: "Man-months" offend some of your audience. From:"<Arthur Dilancea>" <adilance -at- TRANSPORT -dot- BOMBARDIER -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:20:17 -0400
Nancy suggested using the term "chair" instead of "chairman" or otherwise.
The problem I have with that is that, at work, I have a chair I sit on. It
is an inanimate object, not a person I abuse by calling "chair" and sitting
on all day.
