Wednesday, September 2, 2020

My pronouns and dictionary newbies

You may be familiar with the sort of question about like this: What are your pronouns?  You can find information like this: https://uwm.edu/lgbtrc/support/gender-pronouns/

As far as I know this subject of "my pronouns" relates mostly to gender and sexuality.  The physical and medical possibility of my changing my sex/ gender can allow for some people who suffer pain and confusion because of the structure of their bodies and brains to change what was unchangeable.   I guess the best known problem is that of a baby looking like a boy or a girl to the birth nurses and physicians, but being somewhat ambiguous looking, or later, feeling quite different from other members of that sex (biological)/gender (social and psychological). If you are interested, you might like to look Dr. John Money and his work years ago.


Many people are surprised to find that there are words and concepts that seem to matter to some but not all.  For example, as jazz became popular, as the minuet and the reel were replaced by the waltz and the polka, new words and concepts emerged in all sorts of fields.  All of us older folks know that "things aren't like they were when I was a kid."  So, our thinking and our words are constantly changing.  Here is a web page on the CNN site worth reading over.  Some of this will probably be familiar already and some totally new.  

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/us/dictionary-com-update-trnd/

There are some paragraphs about more important items but below that is a new word list that is the meat.


Just today, I began listening to "The App Generation" by Gardner and Davis.  You probably know "app" for "application" or short program that does some things rather specifically.  It's a lovely book in that it shows how, sometimes, modern smartphones can unite generations and allow the young to teach the old and vice versa, too. Just hours ago, our 6th grader helped Lynn use a drawing app.

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