Lauren's wrote:

I guess that cute-sy feminizing ending would be necessary, IF the

definition of 'FAN' was: "a Male that is an avid follower of an

artform or artist..." but I don't see that in any of the

dictionaries I have looked in.

Sometimes the habit of adding gender denoting endings to words aids

in the destruction of the language, along with peoples

hypersensitivity to real words that have been taken on in slang to

represent acts or anatomical parts of humans, or used to demean

others, which just won't do, words such as Dick, Cock, Ass, Uranus,

(myanus), Dickie, Cougar, Hamster, Chick, his/her, dumb, Blind, Fat,

Short, Crap, Retarded.......

Let's all try to reinstate the beautiful colour of the english

language, and restore it to the level it used to be. none of this

word 'LITE' crap

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Laurens,

There is no destruction of the English language going on here. Adding "ette" is cute and funny not demeaning.

Language is a way of communicating. Every person, group, village, country, planet has their own ways of using language.

The beautiful thing about language is its diversity. There is no right or wrong. The English language we use today is

nothing like the original English language and I am glad. But why has it changed? Well, mainly because people aren't all the same.

We each use language in a very personal way. The way I say something and you say something is very different. To say someone is

using their language wrong is just ricockulous. <(Note: funny use of English language)

But all this talk does remind me of a song by "The Normal"

, Jonathan