merriam rulester

Dictionaries are - by definition - descriptive. It is not their duty to judge what goes into them. They merely collected terms used by people and explain what they mean.

Demanding to remove information from a dictionary, because you do not like what it expresses or the people who use those terms, is the very definition of censorship.

These people really don't have two braincells to rub together, do they?

Merriam dgaf. Their job is to figure out what words people are using, and document them. People could invent the word "bumblesausagecock" and if it caught on, they would add it.

"Hope you're ready to define words, dictionary" that's their whole thing dude.

Also I would highly recommend anyone into anime to check out Fune wo Amu/The Great Passage. It's an anime about the creation of a dictionary. It's a pretty compelling love letter to the idea of language in general. I think I started watching it when it was airing thinking 'this sounds boring as hell, they've gotta be cooking something if this got funded' and they were.

This is why the idea of gender needs to disappear eventually. If we have it, we then need to label every single permutation of every expression. Maybe that's fun for some people, but it's definitely not fun for me.

To be clear I'm not saying you can't be a woman or a man or whatever. I understand I have to pay that tax. But in 200 years maybe it won't matter anymore because we'll all just be people. And that seems nice to me.

12000? It's over 20000! https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-this-fungus-has-over-20-000-sexes

Sex is not the same in biology/science as it is in culture.

Sex in culture may be a choice, in biology it is a given. Sometimes a bad interpretation of facts.

I really don't understand why anyone would get mad over any word being added to the dictionary unless the definition is obviously biased. I remember giggling at the profanity and racial slurs in the dictionary when I was a kid and nobody was upset about that as far as I know.

I started reading this link for the lazy: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genderqueer

And found this pretty darn good article for clueless but well-meaning people who want to learn and support their kid/grandkid/friend:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/merriam-websters-short-list-of-gender-and-identity-terms

I found a HuffPo article linking to the original Twitter post (link to bad place) in case anyone wanted to verify this was legit before sharing.

Now I love you even more Merriam Webster<3

Putting words you don't know the meaning of in the dictionary accompanied by an explanation of what those words mean? Woke nonsense, obviously.

“In reply to” is breaking my brain. Has it always been phrased like that on twitter? I feel like “replying to” or ”in response to” would be clear whereas I’m only able to make sense of “in reply to” if I infer the elision of an article. That said, even “in a reply to” would make more sense when introducing a quote or excerpt from the reply.

Unless I’m just experiencing semantic satiation because I’ve been repeating it to myself in confusion.

Sex in biology has a clear aim: genetic recombination. Everything in function of the recombination of 2 gametes can be considered sex in Biology.

(I think that only plasmid exchange is non sexual exchange of genetic information but eukaryotes don't do that) A lof of social interactions in zoology however, we consider as sex or gender interactions in culture.

the messiness of sex, of others, other organisms, is just a perspective.

I agree about the bees. Yes there is far more variation in other organisms than Humans. In biology homosexuality exists, but it means reproduction by same sex individuals. Not what Humans do when they are homosexual, that is rather social interaction from a biological Point of view.

To be fair: their definition lacks a definition of what is male or female.