[Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Re: "man" avoidance

[Laurence Horn]

But in particular (unlike the use of e.g. "a straw person argument"), this
is a likely blend (or confusion) of "straw man" and "stalking horse"

On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 2:37 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> JIm Acosta, CNN:
>
> "But isn't that a bit of a strawhorse argument?"
>
> JL
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 5:58 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > So retro.
> >
> > "A *human* named..." is undoubtedly what we prefer today.
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> > On Sep 26, 2016, at 12:42 PM, MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY
> >> RDECOM AMRDEC (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at MAIL.MIL> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> It's like the middle-schooler who writes, _Ulysses_ is a book by a
> man
> >> named James Joyce."
> >> >>
> >> >> "A man named" adds nothing to the sentence . .  .
> >> >
> >> > Unless the assignment is "Give me a 100 word book report."  "A man
> >> named " gets you 3% farther down the road.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> But "...a human being named...", while less informative than "...a man
> >> named...", does add an additional word.
> >>
> >> LH
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