Originally published at: Man who threatened Merriam-Webster over gender definitions pleads guilty | Boing Boing
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sentence
- 2a : judgment sense 4a specifically : one formally pronounced by a court or judge in a criminal proceeding and specifying the punishment to be inflicted upon the convict
- b : the punishment so imposed serve out a sentence
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Adios. Enjoy prison, jackass.
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Whenever I’m mad at a dictionary, oh wait that never happens…,
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Sadly it doesn’t look like he’s going to jail. It’s sounding a lot like he’ll get a suspended sentence and three years probation.
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Previously people who were mad at Merriam Webster just used American Heritage instead.
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I wish the Judge would throw the Thesaurus at him, real hard like.
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A disgruntled man upset about Merriam-Webster dictionary’s update to their definitions of gender pronouns
That’s a lot of words when only one is necessary: terrorist.
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Y’all, I’m starting to get the impression that TERFs are just assholes.
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What gave it away?
(insert goatse here)
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I’d be equally satisfied if the thesaurus was hurled, tossed, flung or pitched. 
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Is that as big and heavy as a Brontosaurus?
Asking for a friend. 
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Damn, too bad. He really needs to go to jail, at the very least just so when someone asks, “What are you in for?” he can say, “Threatening a dictionary.”
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The AP style guide recommends “Webster’s New World College Dictionary” for some reason 
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That’s published by Harper Collins
The dictionaries alluded to in the “Dueling Dictionaries” article were
Merriam Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged which enjoyed a position of prescriptional authority, possibly because it described so much.
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The American Heritage Dictionary Of The English Language ironically also published by Harper Collins. Damn this book industry consolidation!
“Webster’s” is a generic term that any upstart can use. I like the OED because it cites things.
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(In other news, BB doesn’t want me to post the original URL because it contains the “b” word so I had to use a URL shortener.)
I don’t think it worked
Edited, thanks!
