Which Reminds Me

Yes, I suppose that you will want me to say something about Joann, and the online mail I was receiving from their ex-wife Debbie. Sounded like a horrible mess, the way I heard it online. Why go to all that trouble just to pull a token Webster's dictionary away from the mother of his children? It just wasn't that important. Who cares? We have made too much progress in Western Civilization (an A class for me) now to pretend that being male is the only thing required to write a dictionary. No one is disputing the fact of male authority. After all, Adam's first job in the Bible was to name the animals. That was Adam's job, not so much Eve's job. Right. But nowadays, more than a mere male is required to write a dictionary or to provide a truly authoritative definition. It is not enough to be born in Spain. You might pull birth gender rank and fool a few persons for a short time, but then it just gets tedious having to lvie that way. And anyway, ChatGPT is now telling me that for most professional lexicographers, the minimum qualification is a bachelor's degree in English, Spanish, Linguistics, Modern Languages, Classics, or a closely related field. Competitive applicants often have: Master's degree in Linguistics, Lexicography or Applied Linguistics and also a PhD (especially for historical or scholarly dictionaries), For Spanish lexicography, degrees in Hispanic Linguistics, Philology, Spanish Language, or Romance Languages are especially valued. In this case, I might prefer to go with the dictionary and/or ChatGPT, thanks anyway.