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re: Dog kills 4 year old boy in AL.
Posted on 2/27/24 at 11:38 am to Porpus
Posted on 2/27/24 at 11:38 am to Porpus
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People are starting to default to "they" for a single person. I hate it.
I have used "they" in the past to refer to a truly hypothetical or unknown person, but I am working to break even that habit.
That's how you win a culture war: you don't respond to "partial birth abortion" with an attempt to reach consensus on reasonable restrictions. You respond by talking about banning IVF.
Is this sarcasm? People are starting to? My dude, this is just basic grammar rules that have been around since we started speaking modern English. Are you going to start using 'it' instead?
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Posted on 2/27/24 at 11:42 am to Mikes My Tiger
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Is this sarcasm? People are starting to? My dude, this is just basic grammar rules that have been around since we started speaking modern English. Are you going to start using 'it' instead?
What I assume he is referring to is a real thing, an actual effort to get everyone to call everyone else "they".
Not sure that is what happened in this article, though.
This post was edited on 2/27/24 at 11:43 am
Posted on 2/27/24 at 7:03 pm to Mikes My Tiger
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Is this sarcasm? People are starting to? My dude, this is just basic grammar rules that have been around since we started speaking modern English. Are you going to start using 'it' instead?
I was taught to use “he or she”, but sometimes I am just too lazy to type out the extra letters.
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