Benefits of Offline Life Part II
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The biggest benefit for me right now and for many years to come is the child that my wife and I are expecting. It (we do not want to know the gender until it is born) will be our first. Definitely very exciting and very trying times at the Arends household right now.
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PJ Arends wrote:
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If you know that the entity has gender, but cannot definitely determine which, the correct English usage is to use the masculine. Never de-sex someone simply because you don't know which gender he has.
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The biggest benefit for me right now and for many years to come is the child that my wife and I are expecting. It (we do not want to know the gender until it is born) will be our first. Definitely very exciting and very trying times at the Arends household right now.
You may be right I may be crazy -- Billy Joel -- Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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The biggest benefit for me right now and for many years to come is the child that my wife and I are expecting. It (we do not want to know the gender until it is born) will be our first. Definitely very exciting and very trying times at the Arends household right now.
You may be right I may be crazy -- Billy Joel -- Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
PJ Arends wrote:
Definitely very exciting and very trying times at the Arends household right now.
Just you wait until s/he's there!
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PJ Arends wrote:
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If you know that the entity has gender, but cannot definitely determine which, the correct English usage is to use the masculine. Never de-sex someone simply because you don't know which gender he has.
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The biggest benefit for me right now and for many years to come is the child that my wife and I are expecting. It (we do not want to know the gender until it is born) will be our first. Definitely very exciting and very trying times at the Arends household right now.
You may be right I may be crazy -- Billy Joel -- Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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The biggest benefit for me right now and for many years to come is the child that my wife and I are expecting. It (we do not want to know the gender until it is born) will be our first. Definitely very exciting and very trying times at the Arends household right now.
You may be right I may be crazy -- Billy Joel -- Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
Congratulations!!! Prepare for the sleepless nights :)
-muneeb A thing of beauty is the joy forever.
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Congratulations!!! Prepare for the sleepless nights :)
-muneeb A thing of beauty is the joy forever.
Muneeb R. Baig wrote:
Prepare for the sleepless nights
Is the new WoW coming out?
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No it's not.
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Trollslayer wrote:
No it's not.
What's not what? The gender-neutral personal pronoun is "he", if that's what your disagreement is about. But, when it's used as gender neutral, it's not masculine (because it's... duh... gender neutral), so I don't know whether to agree with you or not. "He or she" and "he/she" are not gender neutral (quite the opposite: they've got All the genders); they're just anal and dumb -- as dumb as naming every brand of car, instead of just saying "a car".
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Trollslayer wrote:
No it's not.
What's not what? The gender-neutral personal pronoun is "he", if that's what your disagreement is about. But, when it's used as gender neutral, it's not masculine (because it's... duh... gender neutral), so I don't know whether to agree with you or not. "He or she" and "he/she" are not gender neutral (quite the opposite: they've got All the genders); they're just anal and dumb -- as dumb as naming every brand of car, instead of just saying "a car".
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Back in the middle ages there was just 'man' to mean a person but at some point before the end of the middle ages the differentiation between mand and wowman was created. Certainly all my life 'he' hasn't been used in the circles I move as gender neutral, it has always been specifically male. Where you are it may still have the old connotation but it does get used by some to assume by default that the baby is male.
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No it's not.
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From Merriam Webster.com " 2 —used in a generic sense or when the sex of the person is unspecified <he that hath ears to hear, let him hear — Matthew 11:15(Authorized Version)> <one should do the best he can> "
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Back in the middle ages there was just 'man' to mean a person but at some point before the end of the middle ages the differentiation between mand and wowman was created. Certainly all my life 'he' hasn't been used in the circles I move as gender neutral, it has always been specifically male. Where you are it may still have the old connotation but it does get used by some to assume by default that the baby is male.
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As with all matters of English usage, if you don't like a word or how it's used, you are completely free to not use it in that way. Do not, however, try to force your personal preferences on others. It is rude and annoying. Bear in mind that "political correctness" is not an accepted (nor wanted) dialect of the English language. PC movements are considered as insanity in countries with more heavily gendered languages -- say France, Italy, Spain, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. -- English doesn't need that kind of anal idiocy, either (and I've yet to meet a multilingual PC advocate; people who know anything about language laugh at it). "He" is the gender-neutral personal pronoun. If you don't wish to use "he" as the gender-neutral personal pronoun, then don't -- use "banana", for all we care; how you and your conspiratorial "circles" speak with each other is none of our concern -- but your preference in not using it as the gender-neutral personal pronoun does not change the fact that it is the gender-neutral personal pronoun. Those who do wish to use "he" correctly and appropriately as the gender-neutral personal pronoun are perfectly correct in, and should not be harassed for, doing so. And don't say "is not" when something "is". Had you simply said that you don't like using it that way, then no-one would have been annoyed by your statement.
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