Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that I am guilty of some academic dishonesty, or at least academic apathy. I didn't read questions 18 through 22 on the last course evaluation I did. I just couldn't. Instead, I blackened the circles corresponding to three's. I figured that three's were nice and neutral...
...awards and accolades have been piling up, unlike last year. The highly-regarded Harvard team has suffered enough, the thinking goes. Is this the weekend when the Crimson finally shifts out of neutral...
Then, for the next hour, the talk show professor worked the debate less like a neutral moderator and more like Larry King peppering Ross Perot and Vice President Al Gore '69 on the North American Free Trade Agreement (though to be fair, Sandel was far more restrained than king...
...paragraphs described a kiosk that had been set up in the newly renovated arcade. This particular stand dealt in women's hair accessories, and the salesperson (note the gender neutral term), had told me that female workers in the Holyoke Center were her best customers. I innocently included this fact in my article...
...when gender specificity is taken to an extreme, it can undo the very goals it seeks to achieve. Stripping words down to their bare essentials can lead to a vague, nondescriptive--and practically useless--form of language. Imagine the birth of the human race told in gender neutral terms: God caused the person to fall into a deep sleep and took one of its ribs and closed flesh around it. God built the rib taken from the person into a person...This will be called a person, for from a person was it taken. Clearly, neutering language has its limits...