"Steve Robeson, K4CAP" wrote in message
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(Len Over 21) wrote in message
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In article , "Dee D.
Flint"
writes:
At the moment I am only a little Morseman but perhaps
someday I too will be a Mighty Morseman.
In CW nobody can hear your gender.
Why would anyone have to, Lennie? In CW, all I am concerned with
is how well that person manipulates a Bug, key, paddle, etc. Of
course there are those who use keyboards, but not everyone can be A
Mighty Morseman.
ESPECIALLY you.
Steve, K4YZ
Well like too many people, he is putting the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLABle
in the word Morseman. He seems to choose to ignore that the correct suffix
for a group of humans is -man. Instead he chooses to confuse it with the
gender specific version of the word man. Actually the oldest meaning of the
word "man" is human. Females were "women" and males were "wermen."
Overtime, the prefix for the males was dropped and the single word "man" was
used for both the human race and the male of the species. I think we ought
to resurrect the prefix for the males so that the liberals don't continue
this confusion.
Dee D. Flint, N8UZE