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On referring to female officers as ‘madam sir’
ET Lifestyle published a Twitter thread this morning about police officers referring to female superior officers as “sir” or as “madam sir”. I do find the practice offensive, because it signals an inability to imagine anyone but a (cis)man in … Continue reading
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Tagged English language, ESL, female police officers, gender bias, linguistic relativity, madam sir, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, sexism, Whorfianism
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Universality of the Lotka-Volterra equations
If humankind were to discover a planet that harbours water, and if, by some provenance, the same unicellular organisms that were the precursors to Earth-bound evolution were to be introduced into this environment… Would the significant differences between our evolutionary … Continue reading
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Tagged evolution, genetics, linguistic relativity, Lotka-Volterra equations, science fiction, vitalism, Whorf-Sapir hypothesis
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