Farewell to freshman - Washington State to remove 40,000 pieces of legislation of 'gender biased lan

The Daily Mail ^ | July 2, 2013 | James Nye

[EveningStar]

Farewell to freshman - Washington State to remove 40,000 pieces of legislation of 'gender biased language'...but manhole survives

This week new laws will come into effect in Washington State to form the final piece of a six-year effort to rewrite all state laws using gender-neutral vocabulary.

The politically correct crusade will see terms such as 'fisherman', 'freshman' and even 'journeyman plumber' replaced with 'fisher', 'first-year-student' and 'journey-level plumber'.

Signalling an end to hundreds of years of accepted language, the move will now see the state's copious laws, including thousands of words and phrases re-written at tax-payers expense.

[TexasKamaAina]

Crispin Thurlow, a sociolinguist and associate professor of language and communication at the University of Washington-Bothell praised the project in an interview with Fox News in April.'Changing words can change what we think about the world around us,' he said.

That really is the point, isn't it? Take away the words that make it possible to express certain ideas. I've never seen them put it so boldly.

[Stingray]

Thank God “moron” remains gender-neutral, because it adequately describes - without bias - both the men and women who supported this stupidity.

[Scrambler Bob]

Person Up —

Will have to Perchild Up

[TexasRepublic]

Orwellian 1984 NewSpeak