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[mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu: Re: 7.2K is now released ]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Dec 16 22:09:53 1990
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 90 22:09:19 -0500
To: ahat@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
From: Richard Basch <probe@MIT.EDU>
I see that I am not the only one who thinks this change is silly...
Ombudsman is a word; ombudsperson isn't.
It's bad enough when we have a word in the release that doesn't appear
in the on-line webster dictionary, and is not commonly known, but to
have it also mutilated into gibberish because it might be considered
"harassment"???
-Richard
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To: Richard Basch <probe@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: 7.2K is now released
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 16 Dec 90 19:28:50 -0500.
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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 90 22:05:21 EST
From: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu
> o XDM
> Changed menu item from "Ombudsman" to "Ombudsperson" (AHAT)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You've got to be kidding. How totally absurd....
You've heard George Carlin's joke, I hope: "If this goes too far, what will
we call a ladies' man? A person's person?!??" :-)
Cheers,
--Mike
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