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I refuse, out of conservatism and sheer curmudgeonliness to give up English grammar (like the “neutral” pronouns of reference) when I cannot paraphrase without losing what little elegance there may be in my writing, and I refuse to sacrifice metonyms, metaphors, allusions, and other figures of speech that contain male referents, substituting “big liar” for Baron Munchhausen and “Peeping Thomasina” for Peeping Tom or trying to get around saying or writing Pollyanna, say uncle, raise Cain , or Jesus Christ !
(I paraphrase.)
To paraphrase the explanations of how the hostilities resurfaced, each man vehemently asserted that the other one started it.
Media people, politicians and academics, to paraphrase Gavin Ewart, inflate the language in a way they shouldn't oughtn't just to make their pronouncements sound more important.
To paraphrase Dr. Johnson, there is nothing like the loss of money to concentrate the mind.