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

[Barretts Mail]

That’s not avoidance. It’s including people who are pregnant whose gender is not female (e.g., seahorse parents). 

Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
Formerly of Seattle, WA

> On 26 Jun 2022, at 05:20, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Cf. "woman" avoidance in the (more recent?) "pregnant people."
> 
> JL
> 
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 3:51 PM Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Now that’s a person of a different color.
>> 
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>> 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:
>> 
>>> 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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