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Linguistic Bias

, inclusive language, political correctness; call it what you will the fact of the matter is, due to recent rapid social changes the use of man as a generic term has lead to misrepresentation and exclusion of women. In as much as man increases his intellectual ability, he still struggles in ancient approaches as to equality with woman. Several examples as to the use and self defined word "man" remain closely intertwined; both in definition and social context. However, the ridiculous extremes to which gender neutrality has been taken is awkward and misleading. "The practice of assigning masculine gender to neutral terms comes from the fact that every language reflects the prejudices ...

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alderman etc..." not as a malicious attack upon woman, but as non-sexist, non-biased terms. "English language is alive and constantly changing"(Gelder). One only has to read out loud sentences from the 19th century to sense the shifts that have occurred in the last 150 years. When readers pick up something to read, they expect different formalities depending on the time in which the material was written. We are even beginning to see people who are scrutinizing the Bible.
While many United Church members are singing the praises of their Church's new hymn book, others are attacking it's gender sensitive language. Why do we take it upon ourselves to alter a 2000 year old text simply to satisfy a radical feminist agenda. " Replacing ‘Father' with ‘G- d' and ‘lord' or ‘king' with ‘ruler' or ‘sovereign'"(Wall Street Journal sept/05/95 editorial page) Old words are more beautiful and memorable; on the other hand, sometimes they are simply wrong, and sometimes they are ...

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Added: 8/17/2006 11:32:16 PM
Category: Social Issues
Type: Premium Paper
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