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Tag: politically incorrect

Let’s get political — NOT!

Don’t let that knee jerk! I want to get an early start on demonstrating the lack of political side taking that I will demonstrate and also hope you will be able to emulate, when that would help you, which is often, in our present times of unprecedented (at least in the past century) divisiveness. For…

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Ending Pronoun madness — the HOW (to do it, graciously!)

So let’s pull the blankets off our “politically correct pronouns” and examine the naked truth. For both clarity and validity, I will present this “truth” – as I will argue for it – aided by “truth’s” two often-absent handmaidens, explanation and support. Simply (and ignorantly) asserting that screwing up language is valid and even necessary…

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Ending Pronoun madness — the WHY (is it b/c “Words Matter”?)

“Words Matter” — that’s my mantra for curing “pronoun madness.” Ironically, it’s the same (unexplained, unsupported, and unconvincing) mantra used/misused/abused by the shallow, sad, and see-through advocates of the very pronoun madness I wish to eradicate from our language, especially in public use. Note: Elsewhere in the Writing Lessons, section of this blog, I will…

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Welcome to our “Movement”

Hello Readers, soon to be “Writers-in-Movement” Welcome to my blog-style home for ideas (related to writing, rhetoric, speaking, listening, and more) that I know will piss off some people and please others to their soul. I’m starting a movement: “Not PC, GC.” That is, I want to put a dent in language-harming “political correctness” (PC),…

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