YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoFlorida teacher fired for using gender-neutral honorific ‘Mx.’www.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square126fedilinkarrow-up1422arrow-down126
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minus-squareSheeEttin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoMost floppy disks aren’t floppy either, so maybe not the best example.
minus-squareStar@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·8 months agoThe argument is “Mr and Mrs are established in society. It is stupid to add Mx.” Floppy discs were well established. Was it stupid to add CD to our vocabulary?
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down7·edit-28 months agoActually the floppy part of the disk is inside the plastic case. It’s a floppy piece of magnetic tape. But that’s a great example of how language evolves - people don’t even know what the name means, and yet they know what it is.
Most floppy disks aren’t floppy either, so maybe not the best example.
The argument is “Mr and Mrs are established in society. It is stupid to add Mx.”
Floppy discs were well established. Was it stupid to add CD to our vocabulary?
Actually the floppy part of the disk is inside the plastic case. It’s a floppy piece of magnetic tape.
But that’s a great example of how language evolves - people don’t even know what the name means, and yet they know what it is.