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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 22, 2015, 12:45:11 pm ---However, the article contains one of their more egregious examples of the New Yorker's refusal to put an attribution verb before the subject and creating incredibly awkward writing as a result [ellipses mine]:
"You could count the number of women ... on one hand," Elizabeth Semel, who met Clarke during this period and now runs the death-penalty clinic at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law, recalls.
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Yeah, that one's a lulu.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 22, 2015, 01:26:04 pm ---Yeah, that one's a lulu.
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:laugh:
Would you go so far as a doozy?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 22, 2015, 10:57:37 pm --- :laugh:
Would you go so far as a doozy?
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:laugh: You bet!
Jeff Wrangler:
So I'm reading the Bethenny Frankel article (Sept. 21) (Heaven knows why ::) ) and I see the adjective blond used to describe a woman (p. 61). My first reaction was, Oh, another mistake, probably by a copy editor who doesn't know the difference between blond and blonde. Then I got to thinking, Maybe it isn't a mistake. Maybe TNY is no longer observing the distinction between blond and blonde. And then I realized, I've never really noticed; maybe it never did. ???
That got me to thinking about other uses that go beyond TNY. I'm pretty sure, for example, that Amy Schumer is a comedian, not a comedienne. Maybe actress, even, is falling into disuse? ??? Are women who host things now hosts, or are they still hostesses? ???
Are other formerly "masculine" nouns now considered gender neutral? ???
Front-Ranger:
Yes. I'm pretty sure the recent piece on Julianne Moore refers to her as an actor.
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