Re: FMAS names

On 19 Feb 2001 agoodall@canada.com wrote:

> On Mon, 19 February 2001, "Barclay, Tom" wrote:
> 
[...]
>  
> > Man Down
> > -- Like it! (It describes what happens most of the time...)
> 
> And what gets yelled when my female Japanese mercs get shot? "Sentient
Down"? "Sapient Down"? How about "Trooper Down"? Again, not very
sci-fi... "Bug Down"? *L* 

In that case 'man' becomes gender-neutral.

Though I can see the PC-ridden in the military insisting it be
changed to 'trooper down' or 'soldier down'.  What I want to know,
then is, are these same PC folk going to change all the gender-
typed words in other languages, then?