Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Red Badger

and that’s how

And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

became

And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of people.”

the whole beauty of “fishermen” becoming fishers OF men is wasted on wokeness


19 posted on 02/20/2023 10:50:03 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Chode

I went to a kids’ Summer Camp one year, and told the fishing instructor that I wanted to be a ‘fisherwoman’.

He corrected me and told me that I would be a fisherman.

(We didn’t have to alter good English back then to please silly people.)


20 posted on 02/20/2023 10:59:23 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson