[lit-ideas] Re: Member Issues

  • From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:37:02 +0900

Ah, mon, you'd best not be taking your member out. Could get arrested as a
pervert.

John (laughing hysterically)

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:59 AM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Learned friends, I keep hearing the word "faculty" used to refer to
> individual members of a faculty thus, "Ritchie, you wise and learned
> faculty, you, what are your thoughts?"  Is there possibly a feminist wrinkle
> here?  Have I blinked and so missed an argument about taking "member" out?
>  Or is the case just like "media" being used as a single noun, an error that
> seems to be winning?
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland,
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