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Word of the Day for Friday, May 13, 2011autodidact \aw-toh-DY-dakt\, noun: One who is self-taught. He is our ultimate autodidact, a man who made himself from nothing into a lawyer, a legislator -- a president. Consider the autodidact in Sartre's Nausea, who is somewhat unbelievably working his way alphabetically through an entire library. Buck's prose is a lot better than you'd expect from a high-school dropout, but he turns out to be a reader and autodidact. Autodidact is from Greek autodidaktos, "self-taught," from auto-, "self" + didaktos, "taught," from didaskein, "to teach." | |||||||||
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  What does "transgender" mean exactly, and how does the English language handle gender?There is an increase in public discourse on transgender rights this spring. Nevada is considering a bill that would provide discrimination protection to transgender people in housing, public accommodation and job protections, similar to laws in place for other protected minorities. A bill in Maine addressing public accommodation for transgender people is also in the... | |||||||||
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