Spaying the Queen’s English

literallyschmiteraly · 2013-07-12T10:16:08+00:00

Excellent article.

ArbainHestia · 2013-07-12T11:10:36+00:00

Some people have way too much time on their hands. I can understand changing "fireman" to "firefighter" because thats what they do... they fight fires. But when you want to change words like "penmanship"???

2013-07-12T21:54:51+00:00

Well this is just double-plus good. When do we make the jump to Newspeak?

2013-07-12T14:25:06+00:00

Here is what a friend of mine said when I posted this link on my FB:

To be honest, this reads like a Jurassic rant from an angry pub cunt. Language is amorphous, nobody living can stake a claim to its 'glory days', especially if they use contractions, slang or modern syntax. There is no'queens' English, just non-colloquial English. Also, if this acknowledges gender bias in areas no longer dominated my men, is it really 'political correctness done mad' to try and address it? We spent hundreds of years butchering Latin and expanding our lexicon, surely this isn't goi g to spell the end of an already heavily bastardised language...

Title	Spaying the Queen’s English
Author	RatSnakeRabbitSnake
Upvotes	4
Comments	4
Date	July 12, 2013 8:25 AM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1i54g1/spaying_the_queens_english/
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