Word: pronoun
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...spirit disguised in a human body,” Glück told the audience. She recounted that, when a translator asked her which gender she would prefer to be used in a Polish version of her poems, she answered: “Whatever makes the best of the pronoun, so that pronoun speaks to a human experience, not to a female experience...
Caving willingly to pressure, Wesleyan College’s imprimatur has been accorded to a group that wants to educate professors and incoming freshmen on the use of the transgendered pronoun “ze” and its possessive...
With the advent of a transgender alternative, English speakers find themselves in a grammatical conundrum. When pronouns like “he” and “her” no longer suffice, a person can only shy warily away from the shudder-inducing “it” and mumble inaudibly. Has political correctness finally exhausted the capacities of the English language? Wesleyan University has turned to a gender-neutral alternative: “ze.” “Students use it to refer to people who have requested it as their pronoun...
...book’s beginning there is a note on Cummings’ peculiar capitalization practices, explaining that as “a small eye poet” he objected to his name and the pronoun “I” being capitalized in poetry, but not in personal correspondence...
...then, on the eerie afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, Bush's counselor Karen Hughes appeared at FBI headquarters--the President had just touched down at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska--and announced that "your Federal Government continues to function effectively." The pronoun was almost as astonishing as the sentiment, but the moment of common purpose seems to have passed. The war is over, sort of, an election looms, and the President has once again orphaned the government--it's not ours anymore, and certainly not his. Bush, who seemed so focused when it came to kicking out Saddam...