[TheForge] PC-ness Grammatical Pet Peeve Rant - Way OT

[Dan Tull]

It's getting so we just can't believe Bruce anymore.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 6:30 PM
Subject: [TheForge] PC-ness Grammatical Pet Peeve Rant - Way OT


> 
>> "Gender" is NOT a synonym for "sex."
> 
> Merriam Webster said the contrary in 1958. Way to early for PC
> influence. Said it again in in 1973.
> 
>> With all the overt sexuality in this society, why did
>> "gender" ever get plucked out of the dictionary as a
>> euphamism for the word "sex" that even the Victorians
>> freely used?  
> 
> "...black divinities of the feminine gender."  -- Charles Dickens (a
> certified "Victorian", at least for part of his life.)
> 
> 
> Much more gratifying to resist the disappearance of adverbs or the
> increasing  construction of nice old irregular verbs as if they were
> regular.  Or how about attacking wanton word highjacking such as
> "proactive" which was turned into a meaningless buzzword by marketing
> droids in the 80s? Or the major corporations which, in personnel
> want ads, use "incumbent" as if it were the opposite of "outgoent". :-)
> Or the signs in the supermarket isles that say "can vegetable" and
> "can meat".
> 
> But forget about "gender".  The usage you denigrate is long
> established and the pedantic cabal that demands it be used only in
> grammatical discourse is doomed.
> 
> 
> ObMetalwork: 
> 
> There seems to be a burst of furnace replacement going on, at least in
> my area. Looks to me like the cylindrical steel fire-boxes that are
> being thrown out would make great gas forge shells if what you happen
> to have found is a bit too small for your needs.  I lugged one home
> today to that end. Got a nice squirrel cage blower from the same
> (scrapped) furnace.
> 
> 
> 
> - Mike
> 
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