Chair became accepted practice as a way of making the position sound less sexist back when people cared. Chairperson was awkward and this seemed to work for some. It has persisted since then, despite the fact that making people into inanimate objects may actually seem more offensive to some.
Denise P. Kalm Sr. Product Marketing Manager Enterprise Systems Management CA, Inc. formerly Cybermation 925-946-1384 (work) 925-382-9079 (cell) Walnut Creek, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 09/13/2006 04:55 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: SHARE attendance In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/13/2006 at 02:57 PM, "(IBM Mainframe Discussion List)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >[2] Newspeak for "chairman." No; the use of "chair" to refer to the office is old. IANAP, but I believe that there is a subtle difference between "chair" and "chairman", possibly that the former refers to the office rather than to the office holder. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
