Who actually uses "Political Correctness"?

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I'll screenshot it with a retard balloon for you. Don't worry.

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You do realize
I do. What you, so far, fail to recognize is that, as a science, it is supposed to coin new words in keeping with their science & tech, and not to borrow from old words that have contrary definitions to their new theories. Consider what we have done in computer tech. A "mouse?" Cute, but lazy as all hell. THAT is my problem with science. Language [the root, after all, of beginning a civilization] should be respected more than by being so lazy.
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The guy is an attention troll, just ignore him
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And I do not place MW on the same critical level of understanding language as is the OED. MW is ordinary, and lazy, seldom consider the deep history of word etymology.
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You know what "Sex sense" means right? As in the definition associated with sex? Which is literally in the fucking definition? I'm sorry but do you actually lack 4th grade reading comprehension, I'll admit I was playing around a little before, but you seem to be seriously this incredual 
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Langauge changes, as a writer I thought you would be one of the primary observers of that, I thought you would be more than capable of understanding how context, time, and further research can change the term. Not to mention gender has been historically used like this, you see, its kinda like how gay used to be substitute, "satan worshipper" but then people took the word to what it actually means, if you look back to the greeks, they were the  first ones to mess with these sorts of concepts and they were the one we get a lot of our language from, that and the Romans, who emulated the greeks in a number of ways.
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Someone corrects you and you call them a troll, how reasonable
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Honestly, I don't give a fuck if you can or can't figure out what the dictionary says, you're a fucking troll the moment you threw in the word "lying"

Not interested in your games.
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Suure, I called you out and now you're mad. Please use an actual argument, was I unreasonable to infer you were lying because of your past dishonest framing? It seems pretty reasonable to me
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Suure, I called you out and now you're mad.
You called me a liar. If you want to be rude, we can end it on that note.
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Right, me calling you a liar is rude, and you calling me a r*tard isn't? Someone needs to learn what "rude" means. And you say you're a teacher? I find your maturity comparable to a 12 year old, do you explode at students who call you a liar and call them r*tards, doesn't seem a very effective method to me, but who am I to judge, right?
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I can't believe you get away with calling your teachers liars.
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I mean.. if a teacher were to lie sure. Most don't out of principle, you seem to be an exception there
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Okay enough. You've earned a block for your unapologetic rudeness. Good day.
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Langauge changes, 
Sometimes, yes, but in the case of 'gender' and 'sex,' nope. Not in 800 years. Create a bloody new word, for God's sake! Is that so bloody, goddam hard?
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Why should we have to? We have a perfectly good word already in relatance and already sort of meaning the thing, why not go the extra step and let it change? You seem to have a particular bias here.
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We have a perfectly good word already
By manipulating that word, gender, to bend to your satisfaction, yes, you have a word. So, shall we just reimagine what transgender means? [Which, itself, misuses 'gender']  Why not, by your argument?
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Because transgender is actually a new word, now transsex that's an old one, but transgender literally is a new word, using that word, you see - as I said before, gender has been used to mean what it does now, in fact, its barely a change at all. It called the scientists discovered that this is actually more applicable than they thought it was. Wow, science being scientific who would have guessed.

Also to Greyparrot, you have fun being offended at me calling you a liar after calling me a r*tard, very fair of you bud.
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All that, except you admit that 'transgender' is, itself, a new word, made such because 'gender' suddenly changes after 800 years. 'Gender' is what was needed to be a new word, for example, 'acis;' [not current a word at all, according to OED - and I'm sure you can figure out how I arrived at it] and, therefore, transacis. Now, why can't your holy APA dictionary and its experts do that? Uncreative? No bloody expertise, there.
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Because gender has meant something like this sense the greeks... as I've pointed out twice and you have yet to rebuke in any terms. Furthermore, my "holy APA" isn't holy whatsoever. They have more credibility than your old dusty OED edition. Can I point out that dictionaries actually change the definitions of things? Including the OED, as Lexico clearly reflects.
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your old dusty OED edition
Nope. That's one of the advantages of the OED. It is updating, continually. Plus, I maintain an online subscription. No dust, my friend. You might do some research on what Lexico really is. Try it. Don't make assumptions. The OED is simply the most scholastic source of knowledge of then English lexicon, comprising over 21,000 pages of word information. Dusty? Maybe some people leave it on the shelf, wasting their money. I USE mine.

Yes, the OED does demonstrate that, over time, some words do change, and that others do not. To date, 'gender' remains as it was defined 800 years ago when first it entered the English lexicon. As I've said, sometimes people will alter what they mean by a word, and that is an unfortunate, dismissive and lazy attitude.

create a new word to men what you say.
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Wrong.... the Lexico, as claimed by Oxford, is powered by Oxford... it is the same dictionary. Furthermore, clearly Gender has changed, such as the word "Gender" is not the word that "entered into the lexicon" as that specific word didn't actually exist, and as you have yet to answer, the greeks did not have the same conception of gender as you do, they defined the equivalent to gender more similarly to its current APA definition. 
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Lexico, as claimed by Oxford, is powered by Oxford... it is the same dictionary.
Even lexico does not say that of itself. Do not tell Lexico it is 'gender,' according to you.  https://www.lexico.com/about

lexico is powered by the Oxford University Press, which is NOT the OED.  Try to get that straight in your pointy little head.

Sorry, but obtusity sometimes get dulled with sharpness. Just because "Oxford" is mentioned does not mean it is the OED. The OED is a separate entity of itself. It is not schizophrenic. Try to separate the realities of the many references, all separate, to Oxford.
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They are backed by the same thing, they are close enough for me, furthermore - funny how you purposely ignored the other half of my post. Would you like to actually engage now?
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THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING, AND LEXICO, ITSELF, ADMITS IT. DID YOU READ THE LINK I GAVE? Read what Lexico says of itself..  It does not say it is the same as the OED. Whatever is in your mind is in it. Doesn't mean it is correct.
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Again, close enough, second of all - other thing? I thought you studied greek? Furthermore, again, if a bunch of specialists have a definition of a word that they specialize in, I will use that one. Have fun with your stubbornness.