So how to secure your elephant in? And to make analogy of this, it is like to say that how we're going to make sure that we really deliver a good speech. We know how to start, how to develop, and how to end. But we are not so sure about exact words and expressions that we are going to use, right? And I would say the answer isn't so easy. You build walls, yes? You put the elephant inside and then you build walls. You try to reinforce the elephant's cage. And that means that you need to put more effort, to work more on your vocabulary. So this is the simile I want to make here, is that when you feel that you're more comfortable in delivering good speech, it is more or less because you spend more time in building up your active vocabulary. [FOREIGN]. Finally you will feel secure. Then this will be another issue. Now you build up your active vocabulary. [FOREIGN]. Mission Impossible. [FOREIGN]. If we put it another way, that would be that you have a lot of choices to make. It's about word choices. [FOREIGN]. So what we'll do today, today we're going to talk about how you may avoid biases in your language. [FOREIGN], especially about. Especially we're talking about how to avoid sexual biases or prejudices. Meaning what? Let's see. The whole issue was triggered back in 19th century in the 60s, in France actually. [FOREIGN]. Because commonly when we talk to people, we address them, we got a title. We say Mr. or Ms. or Mrs., right? [FOREIGN] Mr. [FOREIGN] Mr. [FOREIGN] married or not. [FOREIGN]. We can never tell whether the lady, the female, is married or not. And then the whole movement spread around, and then people will find out that many times those words you have taken for granted are actually sexually biased, like these words. You know, when you're talking about something like [FOREIGN]. He who didn't reach the Great Wall is not a real man or whatever, but [FOREIGN]. Woman [FOREIGN]. Person, so a person to me now. [FOREIGN] man, woman [FOREIGN] person, that person [FOREIGN]. Mankind [FOREIGN] human beings. [FOREIGN] artificial. [FOREIGN] manufactured. [FOREIGN]. Business person, business person. [FOREIGN] business professionals. Chairman, chairwoman. [FOREIGN] the president. You're president of the meeting. [FOREIGN] chair, the chair. [FOREIGN] the chairperson, the chairperson. [FOREIGN] [COUGH] But not necessarily true. So we will use firefighter, firefighter. [FOREIGN] Placement. [FOREIGN] policeman. [FOREIGN] policewoman. [FOREIGN]. Police officer. >> Officer. >> Exactly, officer. Police officer [FOREIGN]. Postman, [FOREIGN] [SOUND] Letter carrier. [FOREIGN] letter carrier. [FOREIGN] >> [FOREIGN] >> [FOREIGN] flight attendant, flight attendant. [FOREIGN] >> Sales person. >> Sales [FOREIGN]. Sales representative, sales person. [FOREIGN] [FOREIGN]. Server. [FOREIGN]
