>using 'woman' as an adjective>using 'other' as a verbany other pet peeves, /lit/?
Other is a verb. It means to otherize.
>>25221945Feeling othered on /lit/ for your woman troubles are we?
>>25221947only if you're a queerthese are the earliest uses of other as a verb and they're all from spiritual gender studies majors
>>25221947It’s primarily an adjective, dingbat.
>>25221947Or you could use exclude like a normal human being and not sound like a plus sized lesbian poc who can't see how pretentious she's being, perhaps on account of her thinking the word means "pretending" or "deceitful" (based on a true story)
>>25221966lol who?>>25221947If we’re to use your tranny speech form, then I’m othering you for your retardation
>>25221966Exclude and other don't mean the same thing, ESL. If a group of little kids invites someone to play house but always makes them the family dog, they are not excluding them, but they are othering them.>>25221956It's primarily a noun, ESL.>>25221971Social progressives didn't invent the term other any more than than they invented the singular they, ESL.
>>25221955>these are the earliest uses of other as a verbNo
>>25221971in sophomore year high school i had a cameroonian english teacher (believe it or not), and one time some niglet gave her an obviously false excuse to try and get out of class. she denied him and said "you kids are so pretentious or something like that". after class i condescendingly explained to her what the word really means. actually i was condescending to her all the time as she was rather dull, but she took a liking to me for some reason and would always inflate my grades>>25221977>Social progressives didn't invent the term other any more than than they invented the singular they, ESL.yes they did look at the damned quotations you tit >>25221955>>25221979i dare you to find any use of other as a verb before the 50's. hint: you can't. easy mode any year before 2000.
>>25221955I have a piece of advice for you. Any time you want to suggest something is some new change in language being forced on you1. Don'tand2. Shut the fuck up forever
>>25221984See>>25221985
>>25221985nobody suggested it was being forced onto anybody i only said it was a pet peeve of mine + using new words for the sake of poetic rhyme and meter is justifiable whereas using it to jerk yourself off it not + go back to watching tom scott + ywnbaw
>>25221985>>25221993oh and alsohttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/594381/when-did-other-become-a-verb
>>25221993Don't reply to people like that. They don't merit it.‘Words being forced on us’ doesn't have to mean a word being invented or used in a way it's literally never once been used before. It might just mean, that that particular use is being aggressively promoted, so that it's now far more widespread, and / or perhaps with different connotations.This is clearly the case with "other" as a verb these days."Other" as a verb in 2026 has an intrinsic anti-white-male bias, because it's used overwhelmingly to describe white males trying to marginalize people who are not white males.This means that even when it *is* used in a (purportedly) neutral fashion, it still reinforces in people's minds the feeling that white males are evil oppressors and everyone else is an innocent victim.
>>25221993A more clearcut example of what I mean is the word "they" to mean "he or she", i.e. third person indeterminate sex.One of the arguments used by those promoting it is (or was) that "it's been used for hundreds of years".Yes, it's true, you can certainly find instances of "they" to mean "he or she" going way back. The OED has some from the 1500s, one quotation from Tom Jones, etc.But that doesn't mean there's no social engineering going on. "They" is now enforced over "he" more-or-less at the point of a gun."But someone used "they" to mean "he or she" in 1523, so really we're not doing ANYTHING!"Anyone who says this is obviously a liar. Don't reply to such people.
>>25221985Please, kill yourself. You illiterate fucking retard.
