THE footballer person of the year

[Greystache]

Re: THE footballer person of the year

There are some people who object to the word person because it has the word, you guessed it, 'son' in it which gives it a masculine overtone. They prefer perbody.

I've seen that in junior cricket. They can't call the kids batsmen anymore, so it became batsperson, but some people have claimed it's unconsciously sexist, so they have to use the neutral batters. What's even better is when they refer to the craft of batting it's referred to as battersship.

Rather than turning the English language into non-sensical gibberish to placate the vain permanently outraged, we may as well start a new language that only has a few hundred words to avoid offence.

[Twodogs]

Re: THE footballer person of the year

I've seen that in junior cricket. They can't call the kids batsmen anymore, so it became batsperson, but some people have claimed it's unconsciously sexist, so they have to use the neutral batters. What's even better is when they refer to the craft of batting it's referred to as battersship.

Rather than turning the English language into non-sensical gibberish to placate the vain permanently outraged, we may as well start a new language that only has a few hundred words to avoid offence.

You'd have to leave a lot of stuff out if your vocabulary was limited to only 300 words. I couldn't see a case for football or TV for instance.

[KT31]

Re: THE footballer person of the year

Let's get this thread on some sort of track and be concerned with what is actually important.
Man , Women, Person or Other don't give a toss .
Well done Bevo, well deserved and you are a brilliant and wonderful MAN.

[Bornadog]

Re: THE footballer person of the year

Let's get this thread on some sort of track and be concerned with what is actually important.
Man , Women, Person or Other don't give a toss .
Well done Bevo, well deserved and you are a brilliant and wonderful MAN.

Here,here, well deserved accolade.