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[transmogrifier]

[Unposter]

First of all, I did say I don't know if those words are going to change. If it were up to me, I'd say no, though I am somewhat intrigued by a change in the word of "husband." But, no, I would not actively pursue it.

Now, my question is not a bad question. My question is very important. Words are words. Why do you care if some people want to use words differently than their original meaning? It happens all the time. Do you think we should preserve the historic meaning of all words? Because that is what I hear you saying.

What is so dangerous about gender neutral language? What is so wrong with saying first year student instead of freshman? You haven't really answered these questions and I don't know how to proceed in this discussion unless we deal with these questions as well.

[Unposter]

First of all, I did say I don't know if those words are going to change. If it were up to me, I'd say no, though I am somewhat intrigued by a change in the word of "husband." But, no, I would not actively pursue it.

Now, my question is not a bad question. My question is very important. Words are words. Why do you care if some people want to use words differently than their original meaning? It happens all the time. Do you think we should preserve the historic meaning of all words? Because that is what I hear you saying.

What is so dangerous about gender neutral language? What is so wrong with saying first year student instead of freshman? You haven't really answered these questions and I don't know how to proceed in this discussion unless we deal with these questions as well.

[transmogrifier]

We are arguing about the motives behind the proactive removal of certain words from our language, not the evolution of language.

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

[Unposter]

I don't think we are talking about the "removal" of words.

But, lets say the motivation is the gender neutrality of a word. What is wrong with that?

[The Cosmic Hum]

[transmogrifier]

[Unposter]

You said we were arguing about motives, so I responded to that.

Can you refresh our memory? What do you think is the motive or what do you think is the problem with the motive? To be honest, I am not really sure what you are arguing/discussing anymore.


Cosmic Hum,

Your argument about "feel" versus "logic" is interesting, though I am sure there will be plenty of people who will argue that nothing is quite so black and white.

But, it is an itneresting thought: some men (and some women) get caught up in the logic of whether a word choice is appropriate, where as some women (and some men) can "feel" the inappropiateness of a word choice.

[rollo]

Orwell looks more like a prophet everyday. Real thinking is being shutdown by arguing over ideological fine points in the discourse. Dumbing down. Everything , even the most mundane becomes political. Reminds me of the Chinese when presented with the threat of a miltarily superior Britain expanding in Asia, spent more time arguing about which meeting hall would be the correct one to receive the barbarian ambassador than discussing the threat.

[12ax7]

[NovaKart]

I wonder if a very gender-neutral conscious person with a last name that ends in man has ever changed it. Like Goodman - Goodperson? Or if their last name ended in son, what could they do? Ericson - Ericchild?

[ajuma]

Oh for heaven sakes. This is crazy!

Should we change "menstruation" to "womanstuation" or "personstuation"??? How about "mental" to "womantal" or "persontal"? If I come down with meningitis should I call it "personingitis"?

Honestly....

[KimchiNinja]

[bigverne]