Language and change
In the last post, I wrote about the current Polish debate about gender in language. In particular, the debate is about how speakers of Polish can refer to women. Somewhat surprisingly, the Polish Council for the Polish language decided to speak too. This post is my comment on that intervention. Continue reading “Language and change”
Gender and its endings
Over the last few weeks, more and more public attention and debate has focused on how we, Poles, use linguistic gender in how we speak and write. In particular, the debate, sometimes very heated, has been about words which refer to women. I’d like to offer some comment. Continue reading “Gender and its endings”
Banning phrases (revisited again)
Some time ago, my Twitter timeline included another language poll. This time, the author asked for views on replacing the phrase ‘threatening suicide’. In this post I comment on my involvement in discussing the poll. The post might be controversial for some. Continue reading “Banning phrases (revisited again)”
When does it start hurting?
I’m more and more interested in pain as an experience which is dealt with by medicine. Yesterday, I heard an interesting story of how pain is reported. Here is my account of what I heard. Continue reading “When does it start hurting?”