"Apology" in Webster's (1828) sense: something said or written in defense... of what appears to others wrong, or unjustifiable; or of what may be liable to disapprobation.
Besides being overtly (not dubiously) political, inclusive language is like the change in the Chinese orthography -- it has caused a loss of memory!
I have encountered students who read an old text and think the author is addressing just men. Before, as you say, no one thought this. Now even common sense has been driven out. Well done, feminists...
Besides being overtly (not dubiously) political, inclusive language is like the change in the Chinese orthography -- it has caused a loss of memory!
I have encountered students who read an old text and think the author is addressing just men. Before, as you say, no one thought this. Now even common sense has been driven out. Well done, feminists...
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