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From: SGB List 2 <SGBList2@aol.com> [Stephen Bassett]
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 02:30:27 EDT
Fwd Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 10:53:58 -0400
Subject: Re: Time to retire 'Ufologist', 'Ufology'

>Subj: UFO UpDate: Re: Time to retire "UFOlogist, UFOlogy"
>Date:	98-05-17 22:41:48 EDT
>From:	updates@globalserve.net (UFO UpDates - Toronto)
>To:   updates@globalserve.net


>  >From: SGB List 2 <SGBList2@aol.com>
>  >Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 13:09:03 EDT
>  >To: updates@globalserve.net
>  >Subject: Time to retire "UFOlogist, UFOlogy"

>  >It is time to retire the term "UFOlogist". While lights in the sky are
>  >always of some interest, the field deals with objects which are identified

>  >identified by their being piloted direclty or indirectly by non-human
>  >intelligence.

>  Before we agree to retire the words, we need to come to consenus
>  on how the words should be spelt (spelled?).

>  English, which we all speak and many of us write, I believe has
>  no other words beginning with more than one capital letter.

>  Spelling these two words with the first three letters capitalised
>  creates pronunciation confusion. Listen to any V.O. reader in
>  UFO-related documentaries. What the hell is a "Yew-Eff-Ologist"?
>  Is it not simpler to say "You-fologist"?

>  Why give the uninitiated another reason to roll their eyes in our
>  general direction?

>  And why are there those among us who insist on using an
>  apostrophe 's' when referring to more than one UFO? As in
>  "UFO's"?

>  ebk

________

I have done my part by keeping the apostrophe out of "UFOs" in my
work. Perhaps emboldened by this small success, I am now
foolishly trying to get rid of the term altogether, with or
without caps, and replace it with extraterrestrial phenomena.  Of
course, I am well aware that this could lead to clarity, a
quality which to this particular field of study would be much
like breathing pure oxygen - leading to god knows what kind of
explosive result.

SB