RE: personrem/personSievert

[Rachid Zitouni <azittouni@yahoo.com>]

Ruth Weiner has placed at least three postings trying
to convince "macho-prone" persons that there is
nothing wrong in using persons-Sv instead of man-Sv.
What's all the fuss about this? When it hits,
radiation does not distinguish between gentlemen and
ladies. I've seen the french speaking health
physicists  use both personnes-Sv and hommes-Sv; the
same for the spanish speaking HPs, personas-Sv and
hombres-Sv, etc...
So, next time let's suggest to the drafters to adapt
to our times and use from now on persons-SV. Too bad
for the unhappy ones!

Shall we vote for this, too?

Dr. Abderrachid Zitouni, PhD, M.Sc., male
azittouni@yahoo.com

--- "Weiner, Ruth" <rfweine@sandia.gov> wrote:
> 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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> johngdSPAMNOT@bellsouth.net
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