- By Jim Evans
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SMART TALK by Dr. Garrel S. Utter
CHAIR: My colleague, Dr. Shirley Glibb, was recently elected chair of the Lengua Loco County PTA. Though honored to serve, she objects to the title, which has sparked an informal, friendly debate here at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired.
"I'm not furniture!" she complained one evening in the Fowler Lounge. "I have a daughter with a successful acting career, and she calls herself an actor. So be it. I'm the chairman."
Armed with a schooner of sarsaparilla, she was just getting warmed up. "We don't have to emasculate the language to appease the gods of political correctness," she insisted. Some of the men began paying close attention.
"If I am to be a chair, then women shall be woes; human, hues; aldermen, alders; seamen, seas; foremen, fores; and corpsmen, corpses, or perhaps cores."
Dr. Glibb has no problem with the term mankind, or the evolution of man, or being the foreman of a jury. I must admit, she has a point.
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