I mean, put the Lego away, let intellectual discussion begin...

[imatfaal]

I would nuance that with:

 

 

Frankly, using nuance as a verb means that you will be alongside me in the execution line when the firing squad assembles*

 

*Would you accept the last cigarette along with the blindfold?

[Strange]

Will I be shot at dawn for suggesting that gender is a societal construct and the different outcomes to do with fertiliszation by X sperm and Y sperm is to do with determining the sex not the gender.

 

 

Agreed.

I would nuance that with:

 

 

I'm not sure what your nuancing adds. Maybe it is too subtle for me. I mean, if gender as a binary construct is a societal construction, then isn't also true that gender as a spectrum (or anything in-between) is also a societal construct. You could (in principle) have a society that disregarded gender completely.

 

Frankly, using nuance as a verb means that you will be alongside me in the execution line when the firing squad assembles

 

"Verbing weirds language."

 

Some languages have an explicit syntax morpheme for marking words as verbs (e.g. Japanese X-する = "to X") but in English it is the null string.

Edited December 21, 2016 by Strange