OK - my comments are below.... at ##
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From: Alessandra Iantaffi <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: VR, 'girls' and PC (not computers!)
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> At the risk of sounding like a politically correct pain in the neck (which
I am,
> by the way :-), could you not write things like this:
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> Peter French wrote:
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> > I like the 7 pound/hour girls someone mentioned the other day - send
them,
> > to Australia when you are finished :-))
## I asked about the transcribers the other day, and this is the response
that I got. The price is what was quoted,aand as with ther maarket our
teachers have in UK, there would be a market for your transcribers over
here.
> >
> > Peter French
> > Melbourne, Australia
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> Sorry, Peter, but it really gets me to see things like that. A) they might
be
> 'boys' or even grown men and women
## Your meaning of *girl* and ours is obviously very different - it is not
necessarily diminutive
(yes, some grown women do work rather than
> staying at home)
## Now you are really confusing things ... a *grown" woman??? the opposite
to that is what exactly?
B) I find it offensive, as a grown woman, to be referred to as
> a 'girl'
(and it does happen more often than I'd like, inspite of a very
> respectable doctorate, a research fellowship and the appearance of some
white
> hair :)
## - I was not referreng to someone obviously of your *age* but then i
suppose that I am in trouble for drawing a conclusion now to *age* because
does that mean chronologically challenged or what?
I would not normally expect a potentially chronologically challenged non
male who is not intelligently challenges to be punching keys for seven quid
an hour, but on the other hand.......
. I am sure others do too.
> Again, please don't take it personally, but I just couldn't keep quiet.
## Obviously we didn't get our Ozzie humour from the Poms, but the Irish
maybe?
Have a smile, and a good day
Peter French
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