pronouns gone mad

[Joel S. Berson]

Makes me wonder just whose claws the cat was using to "knead[] your
thighs".  And whether the cat was in a (perhaps intermediate)
transsexual state.

Joel

At 5/7/2014 01:06 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>You've clearly never had a cat with multiple personality disorder.  Ableist!
>
>LH
>
>
>On May 7, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> > God forbid your gendered pronouns make you into an unwitting sexist.
> >
> > Arden Moore of Yahoo! today:
> >
> > "If you need a sign it is time to trim your cat's nails, nothing is clearer
> > than when he perches on your lap, purrs and starts kneading your thighs
> > with her front paws. But this is also a sign of affection. Experts say that
> > this action beckons your adult cat back to a safe, welcoming memory when
> > she was nuzzling his mother for milk as a newborn kitten. He is being
> > affectionate and a bit nostalgic. "
> >
> >
> > Back in the eighties I had one or two freshman who did this - out of
> > thousands - before being corrected.
> >
> > Now it's a  bylined Web correspondent.
> >
> > JL
> >
> > --
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org