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Article: Words: Person
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 13, 1999
- Author:
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THE GOVERNMENT has just launched a campaign to make everyone feel
more kindly towards the disabled. "See the person, not the
disability" is its message, and quite right too. But there really
ought to be a better word than person for what the campaign is saying
here. For the funny thing about person is how impersonal it is.
A persona in Latin was a mask, as worn by actors (hence dramatis
personae), which meant that a person was not a real person at all,
and was only impersonating someone else; Shakespeare, for example,
uses it in this sense. Meanwhile other people talked about "a
person" simply to mean someone who wasn't an animal. There wasn't
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