I totally agree James. & I won’t be forced to lie about calling a spade a spade.
We would almost be rendered speechless except the Woke & their fawning enablers would love that. To have open slather with their crumbling moral compasses .
How on earth did we come to this stupidity. It’s just mind boggling that adults can be denying scientific fact & publicly spouting such dribble. How foolish. & vote chasers are pandering to them.
I can only lean on my faith & trust that, in time, all will be well.
We have to be careful saying that in some places too now though.
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Iris Perez (Cambridge University Press and Assessment Tech Support)
13 Jan 2023, 08:26 GMT
Dear James,
Thank you for getting in touch.
We would like to reassure you that Cambridge Dictionary’s first definition of ‘woman’ has not changed at all, rather a further meaning was added, reflecting how the word 'woman' is also used.
Our Dictionary editors made this addition to the entry for woman in October. They carefully studied usage patterns of the word woman and concluded that an additional definition of woman is one that learners of English should be aware of to support their understanding of how the language is used. The first definition for ‘woman’ which is ‘an adult female human being’, remains unchanged.
Our dictionaries are written for learners of English and are designed to help users understand English as it is currently used. They are compiled by analyzing a large corpus of English texts (over 2 billion words in total) taken from all areas of writing and publishing, which allows us to see exactly how language is used. We regularly update our dictionary to reflect changes in how English is used, based on analysis of data from this corpus.
Some debate in the media and on social media about the Cambridge Dictionary’s additional information has been inaccurate and misleading. In case it’s helpful, you can see further context in this Reuters fact-check and you can view the Cambridge Dictionary at https://dictionary.cambridge.org.
Best wishes,
Iris Perez
Technical Support
Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge, CB2 8EA
Maria Allaisa Pombo (Cambridge University Press and Assessment Tech Support)
Would you be so kind to assist the customer, please?
Thank you.
Kind regards,
From: James Parsons
Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 6:08 am
Greetings,
It has been brought to my notice that you have altered the definition of Woman in your dictionary by adding the words “an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth”.
By adding these words to your definition of Woman, “an adult female human being”you have created a lie solely for the Woke Brigade which quite obviously has infiltrated your organisation.
Your lie now allows an argument that a woman can have a penis and testicles which is biologically impossible but allowable because of your definition.
I have borrowed heavily from the original article I read because it lists your lie so well.
Your lie is dangerous because
. It allows men to enter women only spaces;
. It allows men to compete in women only sporting events;
. It makes birth certificates and other official documents meaningless;
. It robs females of dignity and value;
. It adds confusion among children about gender;
. It results in healthy people being surgically disfigured and sterile;
. It is designed to corrupt and manipulate our minds.
A man can dress up, make changes to his body but he cannot ever become a woman and by perpetuating this lie you have lost credibility as to whether you are an accurate and reliable source of information and I wonder to what other lies you are prepared to publish because the consequences of lying dictionaries are dire.
This is horrifying women and God are both very much on the outer these days. How can a Dictionary like the Cambridge allow this.The Woke brigade hate women who are the givers of life. Janelle's comments here are correct 'trans women" do not behave like real women. We don't strut around with 10 kilos of make up plastered on our face and dress up like we are going to a fancy dress ball every day of the week. The 'trans women' mock us and I believe the underlying issue here is they actually hate women and underneath it all there hides a screwed up misogynistic man. The most frightening thing is our Governments are going along with all this Bs. So we are on our own now. I use to believe in live and let live if a man wanted to dress like a woman or vice-versa so be it. (even though I privately thought they were totally screwed up)I kept my opinion to myself. Then they started to undermine real women and men, now they wish to make us obsolete! It would have been better to have completely banned sex changes altogether, and
provided free counselling for these very confused individuals who are now being embraced and encouraged by the NWO lot. It will all end badly and one day it will end. Alas it will be a long road back to sanity and normality. In the meantime women and men who know what we are, must keep disagreeing with all of this and refuse to accept it. Like the businesses who banned people from work for not being jabbed. We must never forgive and never forget. Keep on pushing back. It is the only way to win this war on our Souls.
James, I have sent an eMail to them after borrowing heavily from your article because you set out so well all the points they should have addressed before adding to their definition.
You are so right about the dictionary being used to back up their agenda. When I questioned my grandson's school (Umina Beach Public School) about teaching gender fluidity to Year 2 students and our discussion went into defining gender she used the dictionary as her proof of gender being fluid and therefore it was ok to teach it to kids. (BTW my grandson is now at Christian School)
Great article James. Yes and I can’t understand why women in any sport Or all women, in fact, aren’t furious about this. All of the fighting for women’s rights and years of struggle are going out the window and so few are speaking against it.
On the broader changes in language: My husband and I drove from Sydney to Toowoomba yesterday. We drove through many roadworks but one sign had us thinking about the language. It said to Drive to the Conditions, roadworks ahead.
I realised they meant ‘drive to our conditions’, I.e. follow the rules as signed through the roadworks. What a complete alteration of what ‘driving to the conditions’ actually means. In my 40years of driving it has always meant slow down in the wet, check for pedestrians, watch out for kangaroos and other animals particularly at dusk, slow down for corners or rises that you can’t see around or over etc etc. It means to think for yourself and make reasonable, sensible, adult choices about your driving so you don’t injure yourself or others.
Sadly, I was surprised at the change. It made me wonder what else has changed that I haven’t noticed? How indeed have we let it happen?
We should take the idea out of Dawkins R, handbook when Dawkins’ called on his audience was to “mock them, ridicule them, in public … with contempt,” when they talk to Christians.
G. K. Chesterton said “That which is ridiculous deserves to be ridiculed.”
Shouldn't Christians publicly ridicule those who believe this "gender is not biological but how you identify" nonsense when we talk to them.
And remember, “When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.” (C. S. Lewis)
Keep running in the opposite direction and ridicule.
Changing the definition of a woman and possibly a man is all about giving licence to legally make a flood of dramatic evil change everywhere...as the law cannot challenge a definition which in fact supports this action... how evil is this proposal to expose our youth in particular to the opposite sex in supposed safe places... oh a parent now has to be concerned...the trip to the swimming pool or going to the toilet at school or going overnight to a excursion on of top everything else these supposed private places are now places where our children can be violated...who wants to hear reports that the girls saw a penis and the boys saw a vagina like come on this is so pathetic how could this be shown as a societal benefit? ....western society has become sex obsessed... is there any place left where we can maintain healthy boundaries until marriage? Western society is becoming a joke the Muslims joke about our laws and in this case their is no rebuttal..our society should be so much better setting a better example for those who follow us!...so if you can define yourself to be whoever you want to be and the definitions and law allow this so that you roam free of challenge say goodbye to our schools and universities or sports fields, our bars and clubs and gyms all the places we’re our youth meet and congregate...the best way we have designed for hundreds of years to separate the sexes and maintain healthy and appropriate boundaries has just been smashed...say hello to unisex toilets, unisex change rooms and throw out all of the societal ways we have used to maintain a boundary between nudity, dignity and morality. We are going to sexualise or youth before their time of choosing..allowing this to happen will turn these supposed safe places into places where innocence is lost...we must do what ever we can to counteract the flesh not open the door and allow open slatter....this was the last bastion of separation for our youth now we are going to have Kings Cross on steroids in ever place of separation we have mixing...great work Western society throw out Christian principles and you will make Sodom and Gomorrah! And what is the reason...this is the best way to make trans people less offended...give me a break create a specific toilet and washroom for them like we do for everybody else! Problem solved!
"And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done..........." St. Paul writing (about many other human faults) in Romans 1:28 2000 years ago. Nothing has changed and nothing learned.
Soooo well written James.
I totally agree James. & I won’t be forced to lie about calling a spade a spade.
We would almost be rendered speechless except the Woke & their fawning enablers would love that. To have open slather with their crumbling moral compasses .
We must stand strong against such devilry
Amazing Thank God for you.So profound
How on earth did we come to this stupidity. It’s just mind boggling that adults can be denying scientific fact & publicly spouting such dribble. How foolish. & vote chasers are pandering to them.
I can only lean on my faith & trust that, in time, all will be well.
We have to be careful saying that in some places too now though.
The world is upside down
This is the reply from Cambridge Dictionary.
request (709689) has been updated. To add additional comments, reply to this email.
Iris Perez (Cambridge University Press and Assessment Tech Support)
13 Jan 2023, 08:26 GMT
Dear James,
Thank you for getting in touch.
We would like to reassure you that Cambridge Dictionary’s first definition of ‘woman’ has not changed at all, rather a further meaning was added, reflecting how the word 'woman' is also used.
Our Dictionary editors made this addition to the entry for woman in October. They carefully studied usage patterns of the word woman and concluded that an additional definition of woman is one that learners of English should be aware of to support their understanding of how the language is used. The first definition for ‘woman’ which is ‘an adult female human being’, remains unchanged.
Our dictionaries are written for learners of English and are designed to help users understand English as it is currently used. They are compiled by analyzing a large corpus of English texts (over 2 billion words in total) taken from all areas of writing and publishing, which allows us to see exactly how language is used. We regularly update our dictionary to reflect changes in how English is used, based on analysis of data from this corpus.
Some debate in the media and on social media about the Cambridge Dictionary’s additional information has been inaccurate and misleading. In case it’s helpful, you can see further context in this Reuters fact-check and you can view the Cambridge Dictionary at https://dictionary.cambridge.org.
Best wishes,
Iris Perez
Technical Support
Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge, CB2 8EA
Maria Allaisa Pombo (Cambridge University Press and Assessment Tech Support)
11 Jan 2023, 08:27 GMT
Customer Name: James Parsons
Email address: valjim71@bigpond.com
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Dear Colleagues,
Good day.
Would you be so kind to assist the customer, please?
Thank you.
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From: James Parsons
Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 6:08 am
Greetings,
It has been brought to my notice that you have altered the definition of Woman in your dictionary by adding the words “an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth”.
By adding these words to your definition of Woman, “an adult female human being”you have created a lie solely for the Woke Brigade which quite obviously has infiltrated your organisation.
Your lie now allows an argument that a woman can have a penis and testicles which is biologically impossible but allowable because of your definition.
I have borrowed heavily from the original article I read because it lists your lie so well.
Your lie is dangerous because
. It allows men to enter women only spaces;
. It allows men to compete in women only sporting events;
. It makes birth certificates and other official documents meaningless;
. It robs females of dignity and value;
. It adds confusion among children about gender;
. It results in healthy people being surgically disfigured and sterile;
. It is designed to corrupt and manipulate our minds.
A man can dress up, make changes to his body but he cannot ever become a woman and by perpetuating this lie you have lost credibility as to whether you are an accurate and reliable source of information and I wonder to what other lies you are prepared to publish because the consequences of lying dictionaries are dire.
Regards
I have the dictionary book and the meanings have not changed.
Someone is lying.
Either they lied when the published the book or they are lying now.
I like things in black and white that I can use to check these things for years to come.
1984 is where they got this idea from, control the language and you control thoughts.
This is horrifying women and God are both very much on the outer these days. How can a Dictionary like the Cambridge allow this.The Woke brigade hate women who are the givers of life. Janelle's comments here are correct 'trans women" do not behave like real women. We don't strut around with 10 kilos of make up plastered on our face and dress up like we are going to a fancy dress ball every day of the week. The 'trans women' mock us and I believe the underlying issue here is they actually hate women and underneath it all there hides a screwed up misogynistic man. The most frightening thing is our Governments are going along with all this Bs. So we are on our own now. I use to believe in live and let live if a man wanted to dress like a woman or vice-versa so be it. (even though I privately thought they were totally screwed up)I kept my opinion to myself. Then they started to undermine real women and men, now they wish to make us obsolete! It would have been better to have completely banned sex changes altogether, and
provided free counselling for these very confused individuals who are now being embraced and encouraged by the NWO lot. It will all end badly and one day it will end. Alas it will be a long road back to sanity and normality. In the meantime women and men who know what we are, must keep disagreeing with all of this and refuse to accept it. Like the businesses who banned people from work for not being jabbed. We must never forgive and never forget. Keep on pushing back. It is the only way to win this war on our Souls.
James, I have sent an eMail to them after borrowing heavily from your article because you set out so well all the points they should have addressed before adding to their definition.
It will be interesting to see if they reply.
You are so right about the dictionary being used to back up their agenda. When I questioned my grandson's school (Umina Beach Public School) about teaching gender fluidity to Year 2 students and our discussion went into defining gender she used the dictionary as her proof of gender being fluid and therefore it was ok to teach it to kids. (BTW my grandson is now at Christian School)
Great article James. Yes and I can’t understand why women in any sport Or all women, in fact, aren’t furious about this. All of the fighting for women’s rights and years of struggle are going out the window and so few are speaking against it.
On the broader changes in language: My husband and I drove from Sydney to Toowoomba yesterday. We drove through many roadworks but one sign had us thinking about the language. It said to Drive to the Conditions, roadworks ahead.
I realised they meant ‘drive to our conditions’, I.e. follow the rules as signed through the roadworks. What a complete alteration of what ‘driving to the conditions’ actually means. In my 40years of driving it has always meant slow down in the wet, check for pedestrians, watch out for kangaroos and other animals particularly at dusk, slow down for corners or rises that you can’t see around or over etc etc. It means to think for yourself and make reasonable, sensible, adult choices about your driving so you don’t injure yourself or others.
Sadly, I was surprised at the change. It made me wonder what else has changed that I haven’t noticed? How indeed have we let it happen?
We should take the idea out of Dawkins R, handbook when Dawkins’ called on his audience was to “mock them, ridicule them, in public … with contempt,” when they talk to Christians.
G. K. Chesterton said “That which is ridiculous deserves to be ridiculed.”
Shouldn't Christians publicly ridicule those who believe this "gender is not biological but how you identify" nonsense when we talk to them.
And remember, “When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.” (C. S. Lewis)
Keep running in the opposite direction and ridicule.
Changing the definition of a woman and possibly a man is all about giving licence to legally make a flood of dramatic evil change everywhere...as the law cannot challenge a definition which in fact supports this action... how evil is this proposal to expose our youth in particular to the opposite sex in supposed safe places... oh a parent now has to be concerned...the trip to the swimming pool or going to the toilet at school or going overnight to a excursion on of top everything else these supposed private places are now places where our children can be violated...who wants to hear reports that the girls saw a penis and the boys saw a vagina like come on this is so pathetic how could this be shown as a societal benefit? ....western society has become sex obsessed... is there any place left where we can maintain healthy boundaries until marriage? Western society is becoming a joke the Muslims joke about our laws and in this case their is no rebuttal..our society should be so much better setting a better example for those who follow us!...so if you can define yourself to be whoever you want to be and the definitions and law allow this so that you roam free of challenge say goodbye to our schools and universities or sports fields, our bars and clubs and gyms all the places we’re our youth meet and congregate...the best way we have designed for hundreds of years to separate the sexes and maintain healthy and appropriate boundaries has just been smashed...say hello to unisex toilets, unisex change rooms and throw out all of the societal ways we have used to maintain a boundary between nudity, dignity and morality. We are going to sexualise or youth before their time of choosing..allowing this to happen will turn these supposed safe places into places where innocence is lost...we must do what ever we can to counteract the flesh not open the door and allow open slatter....this was the last bastion of separation for our youth now we are going to have Kings Cross on steroids in ever place of separation we have mixing...great work Western society throw out Christian principles and you will make Sodom and Gomorrah! And what is the reason...this is the best way to make trans people less offended...give me a break create a specific toilet and washroom for them like we do for everybody else! Problem solved!
The Word of God is the never-changing Rock that we cling to while the world’s words become like quicksand.
How dire for the coming generations as the Word of God is being pushed out of the public realm and replaced by these shifting sands.
Lord have mercy and save the souls of our children.
When we don’t learn from history, it is bound to be repeated 🤦🏼♀️
"And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done..........." St. Paul writing (about many other human faults) in Romans 1:28 2000 years ago. Nothing has changed and nothing learned.
It says the same about a man James!
Man: an adult who lives and identifies as male though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth: