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I hope this isn’t a poor contribution, but perhaps a neuter form could be used: <i>
emeritum</i> (singular) <i>emerita</i> (plural).</div>
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<p class="airmail_on">On 27 ottobre 2016 a 16:35:38, Harriet Ottenheimer (<a href="mailto:mahafan@ksu.edu">mahafan@ksu.edu</a>) scritto:</p>
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<div>And also it's a phrase, "emeriti and emeritae".</div>
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Subject: [Linganth] Nonsexist forms of emeritus in singular and plural?<br>
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<div>Well, I knew it was going to happen sooner or later when one of our university policies that referenced
<i class="">emeritus faculty</i> was being invoked: How have institutions resolved the linguistic conundrum of drawing on a latinate form without replicating the habitual association with masculine syntax as default
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<div class=""><i class="">Emeriti</i> as a Latin plural could be seen as a form of erasure. Would the orthographically awkward form
<i class="">emeriti/emeritae</i> (or <i class="">emeritae/emeriti</i>, for that matter) be the best compromise (for now)? [And what about word order?; think a<i class="">ttorneys general</i>. Do we maintain the “traditional” head-initial compound, or switch
to the more regular (in English) head-final version? But I digress….]
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<div class="">It’s right up there with <i class="">they/them/their</i> being acceptable (or not) as singular pronouns. Pragmatics (however linguistically “improper”) has long been a force affecting, even effecting syntactic change, hasn’t it?</div>
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