pronouns gone mad

[Dan Goncharoff]

When did 'peeve' transform into a verb??

DanG


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I've already peeved about this, a couple or three years ago. I came across
> it in an academic paper by an MD who alternated between "he" and "she" as
> the pronoun for "baby," when he could simply have used "it," the sex of the
> baby being of no consequence, needless to say.
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> As for Arden, it - "Arden" is too unisex for me to make a decision; even
> "Wilson" is unisex, anymore - is an embarrassment to us cat-lovers.
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> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > God forbid your gendered pronouns make you into an unwitting sexist.
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> > Arden Moore of Yahoo! today:
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> > "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. "
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> > Back in the eighties I had one or two freshman who did this - out of
> > thousands - before being corrected.
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> > Now it's a  bylined Web correspondent.
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> > JL
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