Posted on 06/24/2007 2:29:33 PM PDT by rhema
“If anyone asks, tell them what they need to know.”
What is wrong with, “If anyone asks, answer the question?”
For every sexual sin the atheists/liberals want to decriminalize, there is something they want to outlaw in the name of "reason" and "justice."
Our imperious language masters would probably dictate that Hebrew change its pronouns.
In every place except leftist academia and publishing circles, unfortunately.
“..some Palasaides Princesses ..”
As the proud mom of a true Jersey Girl, I gotta say, Palisades Princesses is pretty good!
Most people are still unclear about the rules for it’s and its, many on this forum sad to say.
As for the he/she connundrum -—lots of ways to avoid that problem.
“DeLuna says “hu” has been well-received within the transgender community”
And when everyone knows this it should put an end to this nonsense. For most purposes language is better the more precise it is. This person wants sacrifice precision on the altar of political correctness. If you want change, don’t worry. Pretty soon we’ll be using El, La, and Usted.
I really wanted to say, "Ma'am, I'm sorry the English language offends you, but I see no reason to change a thousand years of the King's English to placate your sensibilities." Because we were trying to sell our proposal, I instead said "I'm sorry. I'll be more clear. 'He or she'."
Man, that gagged me.
Apparently these jerks never took Latin, French, or German classes either.
You mean like how Ebonics set blacks free and Spanglish set Hispanics free?
The English language already has a gender-neutral single object and subject pronoun (it) and a corresponding possessive pronoun (its). We typically use this pronoun for persons who disclaim identity with male and female genders, but declare theirs as “other/please specify.” We also use “it” to refer to nonliving things, entities without gender, asexually reproducing organisms, hermaphrodites, and animals of unknown or irrelevant gender.
BS. Only to a certain kind of hyper-sensitive modern ears.
I've seen a lot of textbooks that use "she" instead. I fail to see how that's an improvement.
Sounds like something from Dr. Seuss.
And, when they're imposing rules on our language, they do so [quoting Jennings' column cited earlier] "Using superficial determinants, they rule with a judgmentalism they condemn and a demanding conformity defiant of their individualism dogma. They live by facile rules that too easily dismiss anything or anyone who provokes thought. Ironic that the age of diversity should produce monolithic literature."
Speaking of ridiculous....ping.
He is hu, she is hu, even an it is a hu?
What will all the hu’s down in hu-ville do?
Where does "man" in "humankind" fit in?
Shouldn't it be "hu-person-kind"? Then you have "son" in "per-son." Where do the daughters fit in?
Maybe we should all communicate using stick figures. And change the signs on restrooms. You know the stick figures that connote a female with the shape of a dress instead of a man wearing pants.
Hell, all men should wear drsses and pants. Oh wait, the Scots do that.
Nevermind.
They do?? OK, mia hermano, whatever you say.
;^)
Right: Horton hears a Hu
That community is most notable for the innovative use of things other than pronouns. In any case human beings do not have "genders." Words have genders. Human beings have sexes. Vive la Différence.
Such acrobatic stupidity (one is reminded of a diver doing a one and a half gainer into a dry pool) as DeLuna's neologism will not "catch on" unless it is mandated, and the real language Nazis know that perfectly well. It will be coming soon to academia, bet on it. There tortured syntax is perfectly justified as long as it is the interest of (shudder) "gender and social justice."
But the control of language is not the control of thought despite some decades of earnest academic asseveration to the contrary. It isn't even really the control of language. That has, to my knowledge, happened only in one extraordinary case, and Latin has been dead for a very long time now.
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