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Help wanted with gender neutral language

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Australian “Idiom” to the rescue:

Bucks and sheilas (close to a complaint).

But safer is;

OK you bunch of dags,

Pack of nurds, dills, Galahs, yobbos, deros, dunny rats .

and more unmentionables.


Easily an appropriatly safe greeting for every occasion!
Posted by diver dan, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 9:54:16 PM
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Ladies and Gentlemen, is rather sexist.
Philo,
what's sexist about that ? It's classist yeah but sexist ? Those who have nothing more to worry about than this nonsensical PC crap I suggest go out into the real world & fend for yourself for a week rather than depend on our tax money.
Posted by individual, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 5:42:22 AM
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You guys do realise this is a spoof?
Posted by stevenlmeyer, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 6:33:26 AM
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Individual:

I am into “oronyms” today. Here’s one for you; hope it helps!

“There’s a bathroom on the right”
“There’s a bad moon on the rise”
Posted by diver dan, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 6:55:46 AM
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An “oronym", diver dan?

>>“There’s a bathroom on the right”
“There’s a bad moon on the rise”<<

When they refer to popular songs, I have always called them mondegreens.

http://wordinfo.info/unit/3347/ip:8/il:M

But thank you for introducing me to the generic term, I hadn't come across it before..
Posted by Pericles, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 8:42:27 AM
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Pericles:

Oh, the purity of linguistics! No worries.
Posted by diver dan, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 2:03:44 PM
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