Posted on 12/15/2022 6:53:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There has always been a political element to dictionaries. After all, as George Orwell explained when he created Newspeak, he who controls language controls thought. That’s why it shouldn’t be surprising that the people behind the online Cambridge Dictionary have decided to include fake genders in the definitions of “man” and “woman.” Once again, the intellectual spawns of academia are spreading the rot.
Dictionaries have guided the English language since the mid-18th century when Samuel Johnson published his ground-breaking Dictionary of the English Language. It was, he explained, intended to standardize and rationalize spelling, trace word originals, give pronunciation guidance and “preserve the purity, and ascertain the meaning of our English idiom.”
Noah Webster, who wrote the first uniquely American dictionary in the first quarter of the 19th century, had even higher aspirations: Refining the English language would elevate the American people by recognizing the virtues of their unique take on the English language, as well as helping them understand the virtues of American nationalism and religious morality.
Johnson and Webster intuitively understood that language, thought, and even national identity are inexorably intertwined. No wonder, then, that the battle over language in America is constant, something that’s escalated over the years.
For example, one of those battles is the way everything Republicans and conservatives do or say is characterized as “racism.” “Racism” meant imputing negative characteristics to people based on race. In leftist hands, though, racism means “anything we don’t like.” When Obama became president, leftists effectively used that redefined word to silence those who foolishly still viewed “racism” as a moral failing tied to racial hatred.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
an adult who lives and identifies as male though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth:
- Mark is a trans man (= a man who was said to be female when they were born).
- Their doctor encouraged them to live as a man for a while before undergoing surgical transition.
It includes the same nonsense for the word “woman”:
an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth:
The dictionary remains one of the last holdouts of the colonial patriarchy.
There are six hundred and sixty six genders and a people’s dictionary should reference all of them.
;-)
I see what you did there...
Makes me glad that I have a Webster’s (Unabridged) PAPER Dictionary that can’t be changed
Colin McIntosh, chief editor of the Cambridge University Press. Likely he has the final say on content. Either has direct involvement with the lgbtq movement or was pressured by activist groups.
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/colin-mcintosh/
Libs destroy everything they touch......EVERYTHING.
That includes the dictionary.
It is very much like the Roman Empire in its decadent period.
Those who don't see it are stupid.
It started with Beyonce and “bootylicious”.
The rise of ghetto black culture being cool, bodes ill for the country.
Well I proudly proclaim that I am non-sextary-sexty-sex. So there.
Filed under “Burn baby burn!”. Can’t happen fast enough for me at this point. Going to be delicious to watch.
I think it will accelerate faster than people think. Going to be a very interesting total collapse over the next 10 - 15 years.
Insane self-loathing “progressives” have taken over something that never before had a political agenda. I suppose I should not be surprised. The left has had control of one part of the language for a half-dozen years or so: pronouns. You will be arrested for speaking English correctly. It will happen in the USA. There will be no recourse. The excuse “I’m almost 90 and I’ve been speaking English most of those years. You can’t tell me how to speak English” won’t work. No. That excuse will get you thrown in jail longer, coming soon, in the formerly great USA, where insane people now dictate the rules.
Yes, and we lose when we adopt the language of the left by substituting "gender" for "sex", wanting to be a part of the hip modern urban in-crowd.
Mental illness on display.
When the perverse pig Senator Hirono from Hawaii was trying to trip up Justice Barrett during her confirmation hearings, Merriam-Webster changed their definition of “sexual preference” within 30 minutes of the Senator’s attempted attack on Barrett to enable the Senator’s attack.
OK...If all you “Woke” people say a person can be whatever they choose to be, I choose to be a Billionaire!!!!!!
This piece of paper that I wrote “1 MILLION DOLLARS” on is actually one million dollars because I believe it’s true...Gimme what I ask for and I’ll gladly give you this piece of paper that is “1 MILLION DOLLARS”...
DO IT NOW!!!!!!!!
All ruling class institutions are corrupted by this. All.
Well, all of this confusion around this issue helps explain why Kentanji Brown Jackson cannot define what a woman is.
These issues are just far more complicated than any of us realized.
Sarcasm.........
Cambridge, was a time that meant something...
But I understand the point being made -
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'Redefine the language (attempt to) redefine reality.'
There is no “news media” any longer...
It is now the “news narrative”...
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