{"id":1740,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/linguists-plead-for-desexualization-of-girth\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:58:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:58:23","slug":"linguists-plead-for-desexualization-of-girth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/linguists-plead-for-desexualization-of-girth\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguists Plead for Desexualization of \u201cGirth\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<h6>By <a href=\"\/search?author=Morgan Pantuck\">Morgan Pantuck<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>Nov. 8, 2016<\/h6>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"2\" data-time=\"1478617563928\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">Nearly 100 members of the Linguistic Society of America signed an open letter to the public this weekend detailing \u201cthe necessity of desexualizing the word \u2018girth,\u2019\u201d the <em>Dealer <\/em>reports. \u201cGirth just means circumference,\u201d the authors note. \u201cYet, one cannot refer to the girth of an object, no matter how innocuous, without imbuing it with sexual overtones.\u201d<\/insert><\/p>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"2\" data-time=\"1478617563928\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">The letter goes on to lament the current shortage of synonyms for \u201cwidth,\u201d stating that \u201c[we\u2019re] basically limited to \u2018breadth\u2019 and \u2018perimeter,\u2019<delete class=\"del cts-3\" data-cid=\"4\" data-time=\"1479176120829\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">\u201d<\/delete> <insert class=\"ins cts-3\" data-cid=\"5\" data-time=\"1479176132921\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">which <\/insert>plac<insert class=\"ins cts-3\" data-cid=\"16\" data-time=\"1479176136825\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">es<\/insert><delete class=\"del cts-3\" data-cid=\"13\" data-time=\"1479176136162\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">ing<\/delete> major constraints on the ways in which one can discuss the measurement around the middle of something. <\/insert><\/p>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"2\" data-time=\"1478617563928\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">\u201cThe Sapir\u2013Whorf hypothesis suggests that language determines the boundaries of thought<insert class=\"ins cts-2\" data-cid=\"3\" data-time=\"1479175150222\" data-userid=\"29\" data-username=\"Jack Toole\">,<\/insert> and linguistic categories determine cognitive categories,\u201d the letter argues. \u201cThus, we contend that \u2018girth\u2019 should be used to describe something, nay, <em>anything<\/em> other than penises.\u201d <\/insert><\/p>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"2\" data-time=\"1478617563928\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">\u201cGirth matters,\u201d the authors conclude. When reached for follow-up, they added, \u201cNo, not that way, goddamn it.\u201d<\/insert><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Morgan Pantuck Nov. 8, 2016 Nearly 100 members of the Linguistic Society of America signed an open letter to the public this weekend detailing \u201cthe necessity of desexualizing the word \u2018girth,\u2019\u201d the Dealer reports. \u201cGirth just means circumference,\u201d the authors note. \u201cYet, one cannot refer to the girth of an object, no matter how innocuous, without imbuing it with sexual overtones.\u201d The letter goes on to lament the current shortage of synonyms for \u201cwidth,\u201d stating that \u201c[we\u2019re] basically limited to \u2018breadth\u2019 and \u2018perimeter,\u2019\u201d which placesing major constraints on the ways in which one can discuss the measurement around the middle of something. \u201cThe Sapir\u2013Whorf hypothesis suggests that language determines the boundaries of thought, and linguistic categories determine cognitive categories,\u201d the letter argues. \u201cThus, we contend that \u2018girth\u2019 should be used to describe something, nay, anything other than penises.\u201d \u201cGirth matters,\u201d the authors conclude. When reached for follow-up, they added, \u201cNo, not that way, goddamn it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2773,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}