Editor, writer, researcher, teacher, photographer. PhD, MA: University of Chicago; BA: University of California, Berkeley. Dialectic, not eristic.
Feb 27, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Since people misunderstood what I was saying in the recent controversy, I have written it down in plain English. Comments are welcomed. I will paste the short account below. docs.google.com/document/d/1kR…
Shorter account, in a series of tweets: 1. English has a number of words that speakers use sometimes in a broad, genus way and sometimes in a narrow, species way. The context allows listeners to know which sense is intended. An example is the word vagina. People usually use that