Re: Ombud?

From: Harlan Messinger (hmessinger.removethis_at_comcast.net)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 05:02:45 -0400

Ron Hardin <rhhardin@mindspring.com> wrote:

>Harlan Messinger wrote:
>>
>> Ron Hardin <rhhardin@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Harlan Messinger wrote:
>> >> >What, in Swedish, is an Ombud? The question comes up because some
>> >> >people are using ``ombud''
>> >>
>> >> Where did you see this? I've never encountered it.
>> >
>> >``By now it's old news for everyone that the Times headline reporting on
>> >the 9/11 commission's staff report's conclusions on the relationship
>> >between Saddam and al Queda left a lot of people (including me) very, very
>> >unhappy. Today the Times Public Editor (otherwise known as an "Ombud" at
>> >every other paper)
>>
>> They're wrong, as you note below. At the Washington Post it's
>> "ombudsman".
>
>She has a feminist turn in oppressed women around the world and in ``Let's use
>Ombud right off the bat and make it, at least, non-sexist.'' I had thought it
>was her uniquely, but Google turns up a lot of Ombud in universities.
>
>She regards the Post's ``Ombudsman'' as an error, as a matter of policy.

Well, then "woman" is an error, since it uses the suffix "-man" in a
non-gender-specific way--that is, it denotes a person. The only thing
that is feminine about "woman" is the "wo-" part, attesting the part
of the original word that meant "wife". 

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