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> cow to An apparent conflation of "cow", v.t. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cow with "kowtow": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionar
by everybodyknows 2y ago
> cow to
An apparent conflation of "cow", v.t.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cow
with "kowtow":
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kowtow
The author herself exemplifies modern academia's reduced standard of literacy.
- dgfitz 2y agoYou mean this: > And that’s a good thing, since Gen Z and Gen Alpha don’t cow to authority for authority’s sake. As used by this definition: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/cow_2#:~:text=%E2%80%8Bto%20frighten%20somebody%20in,cowed%20by%20people%20in%20authority https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng.... Is correct. Maybe grab a mirror and stop pointing fingers?
- drawkward 2y agoNo, its not correct. Gen Z and Gen Alpha are not doing the cowing. If you cow, you intimidate someone else. That is not what is happening in the excerpted sentence. Rather, they are the intended targets of the cowing, which would require the use of "be," for example: > Gen Z and Gen Alpha won't be cowed by authority for authority's sake.