Posted on 04/23/2013 9:48:21 PM PDT by chessplayer
The war on the English language from gender-neutrality advocates has reached new lows in Washington state, where the governor signed a new piece of legislation dictating that the terms “fisherman,” “freshman,” and “penmanship” all be replaced because of alleged sexism. “Fisherman” will now be “fisher”; “freshman” will now be “first-year student”; “penmanship” will now be “handwriting.”
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In addition: Human will now be Hu-person, mankind will become person-kind but Mandrake the Magigician says he’s not going along with the program.
Nope, thats not Shatner.
After society collapses, one wonders what these people who work on such pressing problems in our present society will actually do. With no discernible skills, I suppose that most will just die out, which would almost make it worthwhile. I wonder what ever happened to the descendants of the Roman senators.
The important thing is that people ignore those guidelines and continue writing and speaking in normal English. Use the mental hangups of the politically correct to punish them at every opportunity.
How about woman?
After society collapses people will be forced to live in the real world, a lot of leftists are gonna starve
That’s all some very unmanly doings.
Will history become thestory?
I jokingly tell my kids that it is not fair that there is a therMOMeter to take their temperature, but not a therPOPeter. Good thing the Washington legislature didn’t think of this, or there soon would be a therPOPeter.
Don’t they have any sane, patriotic Americans in the Washington State government anymore? I know that Seattle is fucked up beyond belief (been there) and that their Senators are crooks and liars, but ....
Oh well. Somebody is having to tell Bird Watchers that the Kingfisher is no more. It might be a QueenFisher or a ThingFisher, or just a Fisher bird.
Guess you can’t blow someone to Kingdom Come any more. Maybe it will be “Thingdom Come”.
How about “Long Live the King”? Nope.
How about “Long Live the Queen” - Yep, only now it’s “Long Live Barney Frank”
Or, “Long Live the Royal Thingy”.
Someone tell Rod Serling that he will have to change the title of one of the scariest “Twilight Zone” stories from “To Serve Man” to “To Serve People”.
{Yes I know he died but remember, you have now entered the “Twilight Zone so we can call him at 1-800-Heaven}
Hey, we’ve got to throw out “Marksmanship”. What do we call it now, Shootership?
I guess that “Mennonites” are now to be called “Personnites”. Yes, I belong to the “Personnite Central Church” or whatever. Has a ring about it. So does my bathtub.
Mennon aftershave now must be “Personnon” aftershave.
“The Three Gentlemen of Verona” will become “The Three Males of Verona”.
And the list goes on, and the list goes on. (The weather today will be Sonny and Cher). Sorry, just couldn’t resist.
#19: “Devil in the Dark”, or in Chinese, “Egg Foo Yum”
I think that’s James Caan’s head.
You can’t use person. It contains son. You’ll have to devise a new term to describe the individual who delivers your postage if you want to escape the wrath of these ninnies.
Lots of good Conservatives in Washington State, but Governor Jay Inslee ain’t one of them.
As our Senator he rated an “F” by the NRA, 15% by the Christian Coalition, but got an “A” by NARAL (pro-Abortion).
http://www.ontheissues.org/house/jay_inslee.htm
I've seen feminists spell it womym.
I spell it absurd.
But that is discriminatory towards all the other elements that make up "humyns".
Probably we will have to change the name of our state which is named after an entity who is now known as a carbon-based entity.
We don’t know - yet. Hopefully we will find out soon. The problem is that 6th and 7th century in Europe only has at most 2 or 3 historians.
Think about that for a second. Imagine if the only thing recorded for the previous two centuries (Back before Victoria), was a massive gap in the record.
castigat ridendo mores
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