John McWhorter and Mark Goldblatt – I Feel, Therefore I Am
The Glenn Show
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The Cost of Blurring the Definitions of Words
"I don't think collectively we want to go down that road," Mark O'Mara says. "There's a cost to be paid in terms of communication once you start blurring the definitions of words, especially when there are antonyms like man and woman" John: Would it work for you if we had a new word for person born, double X, and another word for someone born, X, Y? And then woman and man were used for how that person chose to identify?"
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