RE: personrem/personSievert

["Weiner, Ruth" <rfweine@sandia.gov>]

At the risk of being repetitious: we have used "person-rem" and
"person-sievert" since 1989.  I checked a few references, and BEIR V uses
this  also.  We used this terminology in the WIPP compliance certification
application.  The NRC uses it, I believe (at list we did as NRC
contractors).  I first heard the term in the late 1980s, so I thought it was
general usage.   I do find it felicitous, though.

Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
Sandia National Laboratories 
MS 0718, POB 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
rfweine@sandia.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: Neon John [mailto:johngd@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 4:18 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: personrem/personSievert




William V Lipton wrote:
> 
> I am appalled by those whose "pronoun envy" makes them see gender bias
where
> none exists.  Perhaps the following paragraph, from "A Handbook for
> Scholars," by Mary-Clair van Leunen (NY, Alfred A. Knopf 1978) will be of
> some comfort:
> 

Thank you posting that.  Given a person with a penchant for
discriminating against someone based on how he or she pees, I've
always wondered why certain people would think that coercing that
person to change some verbiage would make any difference.  I tend to
regard those who abuse "person" to either be uneducated or unskilled
with the English language or both.  Just another of life's little
irrationalities, I guess.

John
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Cleveland, TN
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