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From the New York Times:
‘They’ Is the Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster Says, Noting Its Singular Rise
A surge in searches for the definition of an old-school pronoun signals a new, nonbinary meaning.
By Amy Harmon
Dec. 10, 2019Merriam-Webster announced the pronoun “they” as its word of the year on Tuesday, marking the rise of the use of the venerable plural pronoun to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary.
The word of the year, the dictionary publisher said, is based on data: Searches for the definition of “they” on the publisher’s website and apps increased by 313 percent in 2019 over the previous year. Last year’s word was “justice.” In 2017, it was “feminism.”
And next years most popular will be ‘societal cancer’
It's not woke to forget woke.
There’s a classic Onion headline just waiting to be coaxed out of this absurdity… maybe sprinkle in a little Noam Chomsky.
“Anarcho-Primitivist-Linguists seize Merriam-Webster HQ, demand removal from dictionary of all new words recognized post-2015.”
So critical people complained that there already was a gender neutral pronoun, ‘They’ and all the ‘Xir/Zir/Hir/Xe’ nonsense was completely insane but was being taken seriously. It was the most unfiltered form of Tumblr IRL I think we’ve ever seen. Usually these things get cleaned up for mass consumption first. To the point that at IO 2018, Google’s version of WWDC, their keynote conference to showcase new software and products and network with Android devs, Google put out at reception stickers to showcase your pronouns like ‘Zir’.
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Now after realising how insane this was and how the almost unlimited number of pronoun combinations was hard to make normies learn, they’ve just gone to using ‘They/Them’. But where was the wave of suicides and depressive spirals we were assured would come with the invalidation of all these pronouns? Invalidated by the trans community itself no less.
Peak Stupidity weighs in on this important issue with "Fun with Pronouns".
BTW, are purple buttons for boys, and tan ones for girls?
This movie is about dark glasses that expose all media and advertising as lies created by aliens:
https://www.amazon.com/They-Live-Roddy-Piper/dp/B0000AOX0F
"They Live", of course, means "They Lie".
The propagandists of our era are total aliens/zombies--whether they are actually reptilian or not--they act like they are not human.
Steve, I can’t decide if you should be paying Amy Harmon or if Amy Harmon should be paying you. I should be paying you, though. Did you mention it’s December? Is it too early for the classic Xmas gun photo?
Someone lent me an advance copy of Christopher Caldwell’s Age of Entitlement, which comes out in 2020. It is about the Civil Rights Act as a competing Constitution, among many other things, and it is superb. I hope you review it.
From the article:
And:
Well, “themself” is an abomination. There on the screen the thing looks like some kind of tumor.
But, more importantly, there is a wrongthink truth lurking just beneath the surface here. For years now professional transgender botherers have been shrieking that THERE IS NOTHING AGRAMMATICAL ABOUT SINGULAR THEY OMG STOP BEING A BIGOT USE MY PRONOUNS ALSO SINGULAR THEY IS IN SHAKESPEARE CHECKMATE TRANSPHOBES.
But, historically, singular “they” has only existed as an indefinite pronoun. “Nobody should get a sex change, not even if they believe they’ve been born into the wrong body.” These are all the uses in the vaunted Shakespeare. But pointing this out would only drive the blue-haired to ever greater heights of political condescension or hysteria. So, I will bookmark this little article, absurd as it is, so that the next time this stupid question comes up I can point to it and explain that indeed the ‘nonbinary’ singular-they is a grammatical novelty, which is why this dictionary had to be updated.
A full list of Merriam Webster words of the year — the practice goes back to 2003 — does a great deal to reveal the inanity of this promotional exercise.
For the last four years they have anointed a single annual word:
2019: singular they
2018: justice
2017: feminism
2016: surreal (I guess an oblique commentary on Trump’s election)
Prior to this point, Merriam-Webster they published ranked lists of their top ten words, so what follows are merely those that landed in the top spot:
2015: the suffix -ism (really and truly: followed in the ranked list by socialism, fascism, racism, feminism, communism, capitalism, and terrorism; then mysteriously in spots 9 and 10, marriage and hypocrite).
2014: culture
2013: science
2012: both ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism’
2011: pragmatic
2010: austerity
2009: admonish
2008: bailout
2007: w00t (l33t-speak cringe)
2006: truthiness
2005: refugee
2004: blog
2003: democracy (which we were, uh, establishing in Iraq at the time)
Interestingly, both the 2006 and 2007 words were omitted from the retrospective article on past words I found here:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/2014-word-of-the-year-retrospective/.)
(As would quadruple negatives: В Америке никто никогда ничего не понимает.)
English has had a singular you for centuries. When was the last time you heard thou in everyday speech? (The informal plural ye is even rarer. Though sometimes redundancy replaced by y'all, youse, yunz, etc.)
Pronouns are the only place English even has gender anymore. We're always told how much more graceful, civilized, the Continental languages are. Well, isn't this part of it?Replies: @Rob McX
I had not known Christopher Caldwell has a book coming out. I will look for it. Thank you. Christopher Caldwell is the world’s best political / cultural essayist.
Speaking of the Zeitgeist, has The American Psychiatric Association announced that for the future DSM- 6 edition it has revised it so any individual who uses the pronoun of the year to identify his gender non-binary self is in fact perfectly rational and completely sane, and ‘they’ poses (sic) absolutely no safety risk to others?
Did I miss the press release?
PS: I see ‘justice’ is soooooo last year. If somebody sees it in a thrift shop window, could you let me know please?
No more stuffy old Merriam-Webster dictionary. They now have woke credentials and bragging rights..
Now it's all gone, and Merriam-Webster is now run by green-haired woke SJWs who knit pussy hats in their spare time.
How could they have forgotten woke?
It’s not woke to forget woke.
This NYT piece reads like a cringy op-ed from the Michigan Daily.
Oh, right….
https://twitter.com/MattKellerABC7/status/993855005378527232
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Now after realising how insane this was and how the almost unlimited number of pronoun combinations was hard to make normies learn, they've just gone to using 'They/Them'. But where was the wave of suicides and depressive spirals we were assured would come with the invalidation of all these pronouns? Invalidated by the trans community itself no less.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Graham, @El Dato, @Known Fact, @Justvisiting, @Wilkey
I’m so glad I missed all that in the Big-Biz world and that I’ll never work at a place like that again. Were I to do so, thought, and they have nice purple buttons, mine will be “He/she(it)”, “Sir”, “Their Highness”, and one of the Zoso symbols from Led Zeppelin IV.
Peak Stupidity weighs in on this important issue with “Fun with Pronouns”.
BTW, are purple buttons for boys, and tan ones for girls?
Surely it is rude in any case, in the presence of people one does not know very well, to refer to them as “he” or “she” when referring to them to a third party. If I make a query in a shop then I expect one staff member to say to another “the gentleman wants to know whether we…” and not “he wants to know…”
https://twitter.com/MattKellerABC7/status/993855005378527232
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Now after realising how insane this was and how the almost unlimited number of pronoun combinations was hard to make normies learn, they've just gone to using 'They/Them'. But where was the wave of suicides and depressive spirals we were assured would come with the invalidation of all these pronouns? Invalidated by the trans community itself no less.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Graham, @El Dato, @Known Fact, @Justvisiting, @Wilkey
Surely “ASK ME ABOUT MY PRONOUNS” should be “ASK THE PERSON TO WHOM THIS BADGE IS ATTACHED ABOUT THAT PERSON’S PRONOUNS”. The assumption that ME and MY are appropriate is deeply problematic.
https://twitter.com/MattKellerABC7/status/993855005378527232
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Now after realising how insane this was and how the almost unlimited number of pronoun combinations was hard to make normies learn, they've just gone to using 'They/Them'. But where was the wave of suicides and depressive spirals we were assured would come with the invalidation of all these pronouns? Invalidated by the trans community itself no less.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Graham, @El Dato, @Known Fact, @Justvisiting, @Wilkey
That hipster whitewashed construction board background. Pretending to live in a favela i so hot right now.
We used to reference dictionaries to find out how to correctly use words whose definitions had stood the test of time. Now, dictionaries try to be “hip” and “woke” by quickly picking up on and validating every new political and social nuance as the latest “flavor of the month” … the more absurd the better.
Dictionaries used to be a defense against babble. Now, they apparently support the ongoing and progressive break down in rational communication where a word can, at the same time, mean whatever one wants it to mean.
We are adamantly moving toward a plethora of private languages that confuse rather than clarify, i.e. the movements pressing intersectional oppression, feminism, global warming, homosexuality, diversity, sexual degeneracy, DSM-level mental disorders, the “floating” definition of families … in general, the forever changing and infinitely defeasible globohomo view(s) of life.
Lewis Carrol nailed it: pressing an infinitely defeasible definition of words is a power play. If you name it, you created it. If you created it, you can change it at will to suit your needs. Lenin, then, would be proud of you. Creating a Tower of Babel is instrumental in furthering the breakdown of a society and a civilization.
From Alice in Wonderland:
Hello, my name is Richard. My pronouns are “Big” and “Hairy.”
https://twitter.com/MattKellerABC7/status/993855005378527232
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Now after realising how insane this was and how the almost unlimited number of pronoun combinations was hard to make normies learn, they've just gone to using 'They/Them'. But where was the wave of suicides and depressive spirals we were assured would come with the invalidation of all these pronouns? Invalidated by the trans community itself no less.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Graham, @El Dato, @Known Fact, @Justvisiting, @Wilkey
These would make nice doormats
“They” is the winner? “Quid pro quo” is demanding a recount
…. You got a lot of nerve bringing that onto Isteve.
Next years word: the.
https://twitter.com/MattKellerABC7/status/993855005378527232
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Now after realising how insane this was and how the almost unlimited number of pronoun combinations was hard to make normies learn, they've just gone to using 'They/Them'. But where was the wave of suicides and depressive spirals we were assured would come with the invalidation of all these pronouns? Invalidated by the trans community itself no less.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Graham, @El Dato, @Known Fact, @Justvisiting, @Wilkey
I think “they” are rubbing our noses in it.
This movie is about dark glasses that expose all media and advertising as lies created by aliens:
“They Live”, of course, means “They Lie”.
The propagandists of our era are total aliens/zombies–whether they are actually reptilian or not–they act like they are not human.
As the leftist death cult refracts reality into an infinite spectrum of anti-reality, the language required to navigate this hellscape tends to lag wokeness.
A solution might be to get ahead of all this progress. I recommend taking a page from Buffalo Bill. E.g. “ IT puts the lotion on ITS skin, or IT gets the hose again.”
Turning men and women into ‘they’ was the hard part. So the next step of turning that person into an object, place, or thing should come easy.
It captures the dehumanization intrinsic in leftist progress and it cuts through the awkward and hateful gendered nature of language. Thats Progress!
If everyone is the same, yet also infinitely different, and there is now way of knowing by simple observation, It is the only way to go.
Plus, it wants what it wants. Which is for you to acknowledge its desire to separate itself from humanity. In this regard I am happy to oblige.
Also, pronoun preferences on NAME tags is pretty retarded. Even for tech Its. No surprise though. It works in IT, so the meatsack is just part of the simulation.
Again English has a perfectly serviceable non-gendered third person singular pronoun. Just use it.
Let’s face it: so long as social media continues to be a thing – one dominated by shills, neurotics and millenial bolsheviks – The Voice of the American People might as well be Webster’s Oxymoron of the Year.
One thing is for sure; if there was ever such a thing as American exceptionalism (and a case, flawed of course, could have been made 50 or 60 years ago), it’s as dead as vaudeville now – and twice as rank.
Eventually they’ll get to “depopulate”.
2018: justice
2017: feminism
2016: surreal (I guess an oblique commentary on Trump's election)Prior to this point, Merriam-Webster they published ranked lists of their top ten words, so what follows are merely those that landed in the top spot:2015: the suffix -ism (really and truly: followed in the ranked list by socialism, fascism, racism, feminism, communism, capitalism, and terrorism; then mysteriously in spots 9 and 10, marriage and hypocrite).
2014: culture
2013: science
2012: both 'socialism' and 'capitalism'
2011: pragmatic
2010: austerity
2009: admonish
2008: bailout
2007: w00t (l33t-speak cringe)
2006: truthiness
2005: refugee
2004: blog
2003: democracy (which we were, uh, establishing in Iraq at the time)Interestingly, both the 2006 and 2007 words were omitted from the retrospective article on past words I found here:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/2014-word-of-the-year-retrospective/.)Replies: @Reg Cæsar
And even that, a quirk, is wrong. As a language, English is a mess, a hash, but one of our saving graces is a resort to logic to fix problems. (Real problems, not psychohypochondria.) So, eg, no double negatives, which would be positive logically.
(As would quadruple negatives: В Америке никто никогда ничего не понимает.)
English has had a singular you for centuries. When was the last time you heard thou in everyday speech? (The informal plural ye is even rarer. Though sometimes redundancy replaced by y’all, youse, yunz, etc.)
Pronouns are the only place English even has gender anymore. We’re always told how much more graceful, civilized, the Continental languages are. Well, isn’t this part of it?
“Word of the Year”. I didn’t even know that was a thing.
Especially fitting now that he’s an ex-they.
Merriam-Webster was never stuffy. Their hard-core rejection of prescriptive lexicogrsphy was wildly controversial. They brought OED standards to the U.S., which in turn led to competition from blank page new unabridged dictionaries from Random House and American Heritage. It was the heyday of U.S. lexicography.
Now it’s all gone, and Merriam-Webster is now run by green-haired woke SJWs who knit pussy hats in their spare time.
This pronoun confusion dates back 2000 years.
Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”
– Mark 5:9
All of this craziness is cultural inheritance from Christianity, with its insistence that people aren’t their bodies, but instead are really “souls” trapped inside of a body. Since “souls” are purely imaginary, they can be given any characteristics desired. They can easily change from male to female, or singular to plural.
I wonder if pickaninny is still in there?
https://jamaicanpatwah.com/term/Pickney/1063
Pickaninny still survives in Caribbean patois, as “pickney”, meaning child.
https://jamaicanpatwah.com/term/Pickney/1063
Aw, shucks, Mr. Sailer. I was really looking forward to your “staccato grievance commentary”™.
But perhaps you will find the time in the spirit of the holiday–I mean Christmas season–to discuss the rise of muscular Christianity and “they”. Why not combine the philosophy of the decade with the word of the year?
https://www.learnreligions.com/masculine-christianity-vs-feminized-christianity-250789
Next year’s word will be “alumnx.” I think it’s pronounced like “a lummox.”
University departments ditch genderless term ‘alumni’…for genderless ‘alumnx’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-departments-ditch-genderless-term-alumni-for-genderless-alumnx/
https://twitter.com/MattKellerABC7/status/993855005378527232
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Now after realising how insane this was and how the almost unlimited number of pronoun combinations was hard to make normies learn, they've just gone to using 'They/Them'. But where was the wave of suicides and depressive spirals we were assured would come with the invalidation of all these pronouns? Invalidated by the trans community itself no less.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Graham, @El Dato, @Known Fact, @Justvisiting, @Wilkey
Presumably that’s mere noise in all the suicides that happen among the trans demographic simply because they’re just plain damn crazy – suicide rates that don’t decline even after they have trans surgery.
(As would quadruple negatives: В Америке никто никогда ничего не понимает.)
English has had a singular you for centuries. When was the last time you heard thou in everyday speech? (The informal plural ye is even rarer. Though sometimes redundancy replaced by y'all, youse, yunz, etc.)
Pronouns are the only place English even has gender anymore. We're always told how much more graceful, civilized, the Continental languages are. Well, isn't this part of it?Replies: @Rob McX
Ye is still common in Ireland outside of Dublin, and is probably still used in other regional dialects too. Some Americans seem to say y’all even when addressing one person.
English pronouns have undergone several centuries of misuse and mangling. When it’s not the subject of a verb, ye is supposed to become you (as I becomes me), but both Shakespeare and Milton say things like “for ye”, “to ye”, etc.
I just threw that out there. You know the history of dictionaries much better.
FWIW, “they” has been used as a third-person neuter pronoun for as long as modern English has existed, from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Austen.
The word of the year should be “farce,” as it should have been last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that…
One thing is for sure; if there was ever such a thing as American exceptionalism (and a case, flawed of course, could have been made 50 or 60 years ago), it's as dead as vaudeville now - and twice as rank.Replies: @Kolya Krassotkin
Stating that social media is dominated by shills, neurotics and millenial bolsheviks is anti-semitic.
Why? Reflections on the Revolutions in Europe was a really good book.