[Ads-l] Heard: "_She_ was the group's _de-facta_ leader."

[Laurence Horn]

> On Dec 22, 2016, at 10:03 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Spoken by the narrator of an episode of Snapped on the Justice Channel.
> Another step on the way to grammatical gender.
> 
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> -Wilson

Ouch.  Another step *somewhere*, but I’m not sure I can get there from here.  It makes “ad feminam argument” or even “go at it womano-on-womano" seem perfectly unremarkable by comparison.

LH

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