[lg policy] Tennessee bill to protect "natural meanings of words" becomes law. Critics say it's meant to restrict LGBTQ rights

[Baron, Dennis E]

Excuse the repost—

Dave,

This may elucidate the issues a bit:

http://bit.ly/2oZ831v


Dennis Baron
Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
University of Illinois
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801

office: 217-244-0568
English Dept: 217-333-2390
fax: 217-333-4321

http://www.illinois.edu/goto/debaron<http://illinois.edu/goto/debaron>

read the Web of Language:
https://illinois.edu/blog/view/25
















On May 9, 2017, at 3:31 AM, Dave Sayers <dave.sayers at cantab.net<mailto:dave.sayers at cantab.net>> wrote:

Per the article: "The bill itself uses vague language". I see...

Full article: http://nbcnews.to/2qSyztX

Dave

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