pronouns gone mad

[Dan Goncharoff]

Ah, well, I wasn't around then to notice...

DanG


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 5/8/2014 05:33 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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> >When did 'peeve' transform into a verb??
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> >DanG
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> 1901.
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> Joel
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> >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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > 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
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