{"id":4902,"date":"2018-01-04T11:13:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T11:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/04\/a-linguistic-curiosity\/"},"modified":"2018-01-04T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T11:13:32","slug":"a-linguistic-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/04\/a-linguistic-curiosity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Linguistic Curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Such words as &#39;poetess&#39; and &#39;actress&#39; are falling into disuse: the grammatically masculine &#39;poet&#39; and &#39;actor&#39; are now used gender-neutrally for both sexes. Why then the stink over the gender-neutral use of &#39;he&#39; to cover both males and females as in such sentences as in &#39;He who hesitates is lost&#39;?&#0160; If there is no objection to applying grammatically masculine nouns to females, why the objection to applying the grammatically masculine pronoun &#39;he&#39; to females?&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such words as &#39;poetess&#39; and &#39;actress&#39; are falling into disuse: the grammatically masculine &#39;poet&#39; and &#39;actor&#39; are now used gender-neutrally for both sexes. Why then the stink over the gender-neutral use of &#39;he&#39; to cover both males and females as in such sentences as in &#39;He who hesitates is lost&#39;?&#0160; If there is no objection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/04\/a-linguistic-curiosity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Linguistic Curiosity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}