> - "Consider using 'devoted' instead of 'addicted.'" I'm sorry but you don't develop a physical devotion to heroin. It's an addiction.
Err, do they mean that these words shouldn’t be used at all, or that they don’t want them used as expressions outside the correct context? Like it is not that uncommon to hear something like “I’m addicted to this new game” or “I’m addicted to that new Poke Bowl place” or whatever, that usage could be seen as trivializing and… I mean some people will disagree but it is at least a coherent position. Similar for “committed suicide” although that comes up less often (but like “I was so embarrassed I wanted to kill myself!” could clearly be seen as pretty trivializing — I think this expression is currently falling out of the lexicon for that very reason).
> Every word that contains "man" or "woman" as part of it just lazily replaces it with "person." I'm sorry, but "congressperson" is never going to be a word and nobody is ever going to use it in any serious context. "Member of Congress" has been around for a couple hundred years but mention of that completely acceptable alternative.
I think “congressperson” or “congress-member” in my head. The word congressman would typically not occur to me first. I wonder if this is a regional thing or something? I’m not that young, (30s) but I did grow up in a pretty progressive area.
> Nobody has ever said "landlady"
This one does seem a little odd to me, I’m sure “lord” has a gendered etymology but it is pretty neutral feeling in modern English, right? Maybe I’m showing some ignorance here.
Landlady is definitely a phrase that’s been used right? But it seems a little dated and weirdly gendered nowadays, IMO…
Err, do they mean that these words shouldn’t be used at all, or that they don’t want them used as expressions outside the correct context? Like it is not that uncommon to hear something like “I’m addicted to this new game” or “I’m addicted to that new Poke Bowl place” or whatever, that usage could be seen as trivializing and… I mean some people will disagree but it is at least a coherent position. Similar for “committed suicide” although that comes up less often (but like “I was so embarrassed I wanted to kill myself!” could clearly be seen as pretty trivializing — I think this expression is currently falling out of the lexicon for that very reason).
> Every word that contains "man" or "woman" as part of it just lazily replaces it with "person." I'm sorry, but "congressperson" is never going to be a word and nobody is ever going to use it in any serious context. "Member of Congress" has been around for a couple hundred years but mention of that completely acceptable alternative.
I think “congressperson” or “congress-member” in my head. The word congressman would typically not occur to me first. I wonder if this is a regional thing or something? I’m not that young, (30s) but I did grow up in a pretty progressive area.
> Nobody has ever said "landlady"
This one does seem a little odd to me, I’m sure “lord” has a gendered etymology but it is pretty neutral feeling in modern English, right? Maybe I’m showing some ignorance here.
Landlady is definitely a phrase that’s been used right? But it seems a little dated and weirdly gendered nowadays, IMO…