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Well, alumni/ae has already turned into “alums”. Why not “emerits”? (too much like “demerits”?)
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<div class="">On Oct 27, 2016, at 5:35 PM, Harriet Ottenheimer <<a href="mailto:mahafan@ksu.edu" class="">mahafan@ksu.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">And also it's a phrase, "emeriti and emeritae".</div>
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<div class="">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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