Interesting the way it changes within a couple of generations, the "older generation" in my day, i.e. my dad - a linguist - would call out the then-modern inter

Interesting the way it changes within a couple of generations, the "older generation" in my day, i.e. my dad - a linguist - would call out the then-modern interchangeable usage, by insisting "nouns have a gender, people have a sex!"