Why do people say “woman doctor” or “woman theologian” or “woman writer”? It bothers me. Woman is a noun. Nouns don’t modify. Adjectives do. Therefore “female” would be the appropriate word. Right? Is using woman as an adjective some sort of thing I missed?
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approximatelyinfinity reblogged this from awkwardbutaccurate and added:
English actually does this all...modifiers. I never realized it until I started studying...
awkwardbutaccurate reblogged this from shortbreadsh and added:
Okay that makes sense. I did actually always find the word “female” to be kind of clinical. I guess I wasn’t sure if it...
uvgt2bkdnme reblogged this from shortbreadsh and added:
English is cool that way that you can make nouns adjectives. we do it with sports all the time: the “hockey” game, a...
shortbreadsh reblogged this from awkwardbutaccurate and added:
it this way because the word “female” has kind of been ruined for me by people who refer to women
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