That is a matter of time and realisation. Squatter's rights or adverse possession might well come into play there.
Why not just pregnant woman if it's a woman and pregnant man if it's a man? No need to degender people when context exists.
humankind, actually. police-officer, firefighter, and congress...congressman/congresswoman. Don't think they've offered a better terminology than that. I'm cool with congressperson though.
....did you read the article? You should read the article.
That's Sapir-Whorf hypothesis stuff. I think a linguist like Steven Pinker can give good insight in this. You can look to racist language and people trying to control it to see if it works. The n word was banned and stigmatized. A new word came in. But people ended up using that new word in a negative context and it became stigmatized too. Its a never ending process. Then a new word, people of color, came in to replace that new word. The only reason people of color is not banned and considered offensive 20 yrs after is because a change of culture and not a change of language as Steven Pinker says. Its culture you need to change not language if you want to see progress, if not then new words that come in will be the new word to be used in a negative context and become the new offensive word in a never ending loop.
Yes, I read it. Seemed to describe the situation without taking sides, but I did forgot whom the audience was. I only sourced it to show that I wasn't just making my own "new words" as it seemed you were thinking, but rather, a far left leaning person, who I would think is well known, making his own words up and "forcing" them on someone.
Will it work? No. It is a bad goal and all wrong when you try to change what words should be used and force others to use them.
Hopefully, every thing you said will stay true. The fact that it made it to the Mayor to be signed off on in the first place shows how low society in places like California is falling. When people want to force their own "language" on others and the government agrees, we will have lost our great country. That, truly, frightens me.
. When their idea of fixing a problem is to cover it up with new words instead of going after the root of the issue, yeah, that can be classified as "stupid". Eventually, and quite possibly, these new terms could be stigmatized and hurt more people than they help.
I 100% agree that if you do your time, you should be allowed to re-enter society. Trying to add criminals into a system of protected groups is where I disagree. Next, people will try to do away with the sex offender registry because it harms a pedophile's ability to become a daycare worker or nanny.
