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Unread 11-11-2016, 10:15 AM
Simon Hunt Simon Hunt is offline
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To follow-up on the narrow point, I'm generally one to prefer gender neutral language if I can find it without losing precision, so I like, for example, the clear, brief, and well-established chair better than the unwieldy chairperson or calling a woman a chairman. Having said that, I think there's a clear difference between, say, chairman and best man. The one is a trochaic compound word; the other has a space and is a spondee or very nearly. (Ha. Auto-correct changed spondee to spider!) Therefore, I think it's harder to argue that the latter could be gender neutral. But I'm all for Jayne (and everybody) defining themselves as they wish. Jayne, you the man!

Meanwhile, my kid is still accepted to college! Yes!