I read article “English is Androcentric” by Lowe, M and Graham, B. I can’t believe Androcentric didn’t in the dictionary that I was looking for it to define it. I hope it add word in dictionary someday. In article, Androcentric mean “It means it has a built-in bias towards men.”
This theme is true bias that man wrote the dictionary and vocabulary. For example in article, “Womanly” is listed under “weakness”, and “man’ and ‘he’ are used to mean everyone or everyone even though half of us female. Men have a power to write and their thinking is in dictionary. It is hard to be innocent in the word. They have an effect during they grew up and look at the people. Historically, woman not been to be “people with the power.”
It is biased by human’s behavior effect by racism, sexism, audism and more. You can check in thesaurus under white and black. The black is more negative than white’s. White has about 20 words for “white” people, but black have 72 words which are over ahead the white words. One topic is hit me about Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. still have gentlemen in it “Mr.” with s. Mrs. have real define that it is “man’s property” or “ownership by man” It was turn me off because I was feeling giving for my man. In my life, I won’t change my last name because I really love my last name Castle.
I was disappointed when I read the article that I don’t realized the language is biased. Few people and people who did read the article knew about biased. I felt like we need make a short movie about language. It will be wonderful effect on the people. It is still biased by media biased. To get people see our language is sensitive to make a negative in the people.
We need to have a politic correct withou
t insult. For example, hearing think deaf is insult. So they used impaired hearing more formally. In deaf community, they think impaired hearing is insult because they think we are “sick” that we can’t hear. We felt proud to be deaf without pity can’t hear.
Many linguists think language is interdependent. People think different way of define in the word. Which is louder in “scream” or “shout”? People have own thinking in the word. Some people think it is big deal or cheap deal. People do use word to trick people like fun size mean small, man-made mean fake and farm fresh mean battery farmed. It called Euphemisms. Euphemism mean words that present their unpleasant subject in a favourable light.
There languages are not having a neutral language in the world. Biased is existed in the world. We can’t remove it unless it turned old fashion or dead word that we never use it.
This theme is true bias that man wrote the dictionary and vocabulary. For example in article, “Womanly” is listed under “weakness”, and “man’ and ‘he’ are used to mean everyone or everyone even though half of us female. Men have a power to write and their thinking is in dictionary. It is hard to be innocent in the word. They have an effect during they grew up and look at the people. Historically, woman not been to be “people with the power.”
It is biased by human’s behavior effect by racism, sexism, audism and more. You can check in thesaurus under white and black. The black is more negative than white’s. White has about 20 words for “white” people, but black have 72 words which are over ahead the white words. One topic is hit me about Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. still have gentlemen in it “Mr.” with s. Mrs. have real define that it is “man’s property” or “ownership by man” It was turn me off because I was feeling giving for my man. In my life, I won’t change my last name because I really love my last name Castle.
I was disappointed when I read the article that I don’t realized the language is biased. Few people and people who did read the article knew about biased. I felt like we need make a short movie about language. It will be wonderful effect on the people. It is still biased by media biased. To get people see our language is sensitive to make a negative in the people.
We need to have a politic correct withou
t insult. For example, hearing think deaf is insult. So they used impaired hearing more formally. In deaf community, they think impaired hearing is insult because they think we are “sick” that we can’t hear. We felt proud to be deaf without pity can’t hear.Many linguists think language is interdependent. People think different way of define in the word. Which is louder in “scream” or “shout”? People have own thinking in the word. Some people think it is big deal or cheap deal. People do use word to trick people like fun size mean small, man-made mean fake and farm fresh mean battery farmed. It called Euphemisms. Euphemism mean words that present their unpleasant subject in a favourable light.
There languages are not having a neutral language in the world. Biased is existed in the world. We can’t remove it unless it turned old fashion or dead word that we never use it.
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