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Language screens reality as a filter on a camera lens screens light waves.
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From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.
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Conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.
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Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.
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Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Casey Miller
Born:
February 26, 1919
Died:
January 5, 1997
(aged 77)
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Casey Geddes Miller was an American feminist author and editor best known for promoting the use of non-sexist writing in the English language.
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