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Originally Posted by Nodrog
A lot of the 'feminist' stuff about language makes sense imo, i can sympathise with what theyre trying to do. Hofstadter explains it well. |
Why change it to something that, when spoken aloud, still includes the sound 'men'? I know that 'womyn/women' probably isn't the greatest example of the case they'd want to make, but I can't help but feel that getting hung up about the spelling of words in circulation for centuries is probably misdirected effort.