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dctoedt
on April 27, 2015
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Carnival Cash: The Cult of Seniority
See my comment down-thread about Jane Austen and bloodletting.
(I'll stop now; we've hit diminishing returns.)
tptacek
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Just to be clear, it's Language Log that's Omar in this silly little metaphor. I was making an appeal to authority, but of a different sort than "yet another famous author using singular they". :)
idlewords
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I'm going to use that first sentence as my stock rebuttal to everything from now on.
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(I'll stop now; we've hit diminishing returns.)