Cambridge Dictionary changes definition of 'man' and 'woman': '1984 wasn't supposed to be a how-to manual'
Cambridge Dictionary is under fire for altering the definition of "man" and "woman" to encompass transgender people. Critics argue it erodes truth and elevates far-feft social values.
I'm altering the definition. Pray I don't alter it any further.
-Darth Troon
You already altered the word "pray" and "don't" last week.
I would go even further. You have to make the feminist live by her own rules and dispense with "don't use your enemy's tactics against them" nonsense.
Leftism is a Philosophy of War, and as such, truth and lies are merely means to power and nothing else. Since they rely on human perception, truth and lies are indistinguishable as weapons to achieve power.
This makes no sense. Less then usual. Female is a biological term, you can't identify as female. You are either a female or you are not.
I know they did it to get around the circular logic of a woman is someone who identifies as a woman.
Looking at the cambridge definition of a female, it looks to mean either the biological term or "belonging or relating to women".
So their definition is either false or circular.
Take a tip from the last 2 years and stop looking towards science to preserve common sense any more.
You mean the slippery slope people were arguing about back when troons co-opted gender? How could we have seen this coming?!
How it should be is "female" is an adjective and "woman" is a noun (outside science).
"Female programmer" sounds theoretically possible, where "woman programmer" sounds wrong.
"Busty woman" sounds attractive, where "busty female" sounds weirdo.
The reason is because in English "adjective noun" and "noun of adjective" are mostly synonymous, like Department of War and War Department; "women programmers" are "programmers of women".
They previously changed the def for "Quarantine": https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/12iN7M9PWT/cambridge-dictionary-tweaks-defi/c/
Now how do they define chromosomes?
You can put lipstick on a pig, but the biology can't be denied.
"Hate speech"
Never thought I’d see a dictionary give into this delusion
Merriam-Webster has been adding factually incorrect definitions for decades.
True. But I never imagined that the basic fact of two genders would be seen as incorrect
It means we have to trust in ourselves and not look to so called 'authorities' which are subverted and corrupted.
China will grow larger.
Cambridge Dictionary /kāmbrîdj dîkšûnêrē/ n. proper. 1) A historically accurate and comprehensive compendium of english word meanings. 2) garbage.
In one step.
Ok, are we at the point that we can cut off all CURRENT academia and say they are useless or do we need to set off a cut off point of maybe 2016, 2012?
All I know is we need to guard places like the British Library, even texts from the middle ages are more enlightened than this dribble.
Wow, they really love to be mealy-mouthed and religiously devout about it don’t they? They want to leave absolutely no room whatsoever that someone might call it “transphobic”.
Not “was a different sex at birth”, but “may have been said to have a different sex at birth”. Are you fucking kidding me?
Also:
Wait until they learn that some troons are now “identifying” as minors/children too. I’m sure we’re due for an ‘update’ on this problematic definition soon!!
"It's just college kids being college kids, they'll grow out of it when they have to get real jobs"
Invest in old dictionaries, gentlemen.
Look at this based shit:
WE HAVE TO GO BACK
THE REAL WORLD WAS REAL ONCE
I HAVE THE MANUSCRIPTS, THERE IS NO NEW-SPEAK
Hinc lucem et pocula sacra my ass.
Well, that's a dictionary that cannot be referenced due to gross inaccuracies.
I actually assumed this was satire. Never honestly thought we would reach this point.
Things are worse than even I thought, evidently…
Maybe this will get more people to stop relying on dictionaries for authoritative definitions. They are (or should be) spelling/usage guides and etymological references.
I use the 1969 edition of the Random House College Dictionary and have no need for any other.
Any writer with anything on the ball stipulates his own definitions or cites them from primary sources; citing a dictionary definition is merely convenient.
at this point.. being brainwashed to believe kim jung un being a god emperor is more believable than saying a man is a woman lol.
I don't understand how a tiny subset of a minority of mentally ill weirdoes came to assert so much influence.
It was in the interests of the elites to accede.
Ask their handlers
Closed mouths don't get fed.
We've been ruled by a tiny sunset of weirdos for a long time now
Which are still wrong since your sex isn't assigned, it's observed.
Damn, really?
It's not surprising but still...shit is fucked up beyond belief.