1 posted on
12/12/2016 11:49:51 AM PST by
drewh
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To: drewh
2 posted on
12/12/2016 11:51:00 AM PST by
clintonh8r
(AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
To: drewh
Its part of a drive to make the union intersectional.
What in the Sam Scratch does that mean?
4 posted on
12/12/2016 11:53:16 AM PST by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: drewh
It sounds better in the original German.
Your papers, citizen?
5 posted on
12/12/2016 11:54:46 AM PST by
cgbg
(Pedophiles--the siren is wailing--incoming!)
To: drewh
This issue isnt about being politically correct or censoring anyone. BS.
6 posted on
12/12/2016 11:55:02 AM PST by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: drewh
I believe I would inform the esteemed gentleman tempting me to discard standard English usage to consult his own Unabridged Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the greatest work ever regarding language usage, certainly the most monumental.
7 posted on
12/12/2016 11:55:16 AM PST by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: drewh
"....It is good to have gender-neutral pronouns for those who want them but it shouldnt be compulsory....."What's wrong with calling them "it"?
I'm just sayin'.....
9 posted on
12/12/2016 11:57:35 AM PST by
HotHunt
To: drewh
Freedom of Speech doesn’t exist on college campuses. I don’t know if it exists in England at all.
To: drewh
Why would anyone spend a penny to attend Oxford now?
11 posted on
12/12/2016 11:57:52 AM PST by
donna
(It is time for Americans to repent.)
To: drewh
“Ze” sounds an awful lot like the formal German “Sie.” That’s going to fluster the heck out of some very uptight little Germans at Oxford. They’ve been good soldiers for Progressivism over the past several decades, of course they’ve always been good soldiers, for better or worse. Don’t want to make them cry by being too formal, which is a correction or an insult to them.
How about Thing 1 and Thing 2? Women would have to be Thing 1, of course. Can’t be second class Things, that would be sexist.
To: drewh
In reading the article, it doesn’t specifically say that this was directed by officials at Oxford University, but rather that it was “guidance offered in a leaflet by the students union advises against using traditional pronouns” ... in other words, wishful thinking by some trans-activists. The article is vague enough that I may be mistaken, but I think this isn’t something that Oxford has done.
13 posted on
12/12/2016 11:59:50 AM PST by
BlueLancer
("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
To: drewh
Zat is exactly what ze homonazis would use to describe other homos...
To: drewh
I would start using “gfy” to the person who told me to start using “ze”.
15 posted on
12/12/2016 12:00:54 PM PST by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: drewh
So objective case is "zim"? No wait, it must be "zer". Crap, maybe "zimmer" or "zerm"? At least we know plural would be "zem". Handy if you're a German speaker.
But more seriously, what an infantile pack of absolute fracking arseholes.
16 posted on
12/12/2016 12:00:56 PM PST by
katana
To: drewh
Sorry, but you don’t tell me how to speak English, and you don’t get to give me punishment for not doing it your way. STFU.
17 posted on
12/12/2016 12:03:05 PM PST by
I want the USA back
(Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
To: drewh
I’ve used that term before.
...in a fictional story where there’s a non-sexual entity and the word ‘it’ just didn’t convey the alien nature of it in the setting quite to the extent that I wanted.
Sad thing is that the fantastic story I wrote is somehow more sane than most leftists today.
18 posted on
12/12/2016 12:04:18 PM PST by
Luircin
(Dancing in the streets! Time to DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
To: drewh
I’m pretty sure the use of the same word, “ze”, for both males transitioning to female and females transitioning to male is not going to be acceptable.
21 posted on
12/12/2016 12:05:50 PM PST by
Haiku Guy
(Democrato delenda est)
To: drewh
I remember reading Anthem by Ayn Rand in high school. Rand wrote the novel in 1938. In her novel, personal pronouns had been removed from the language. The penalty for using one was death. I thought that was so far out.
23 posted on
12/12/2016 12:13:45 PM PST by
odawg
To: drewh
Those wanting to be called he or she should scream discrimination and microaggression to the high heavens. Ze is equivalent to “it”.
To: drewh
Isn’t “ze” a microaggression against Spanish speakers who don’t have a native “z” sound (either “s” or “th” depending on the speaker’s native accent)?
26 posted on
12/12/2016 12:22:14 PM PST by
KarlInOhio
(" T'was the witch of November come stealin' " And who could the stealing Witch of November be? Hmm?)
To: drewh
But of course it’s not insulting to reference he or she as ze.
These folks have gone Thelma and Louise on their P.C. road trip.
28 posted on
12/12/2016 12:24:37 PM PST by
DoughtyOne
(jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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