Re: Oh, please.

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Re: Oh, please.

Posted by griffith on 2022-February-19 15:06:32 EST, Saturday

In reply to Oh, please. posted by Eeyore on 2022-February-19 03:25:00 EST, Saturday

But American conservatives are ignorant. Besides they are stupid.

"his/her/their"

Oooh, look at you, reshaping the language like a true social warrior.

Nothing at all to do with reshaping the language -- it is just preciseness. Until recently, I have avoided sentences like "someone said that their arse was torn up", because it is not logical: the subject, someone, is singular, while "their" is plural. Instead I have used "his/her" or "his/her/their", just like TS did.

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singular they - Tyrone Slothrop on 2022-February-22 15:54:02 EST, Tuesday - (0 / 0 / 3)
- The avoidance itself is more than enough. (nt) - Eeyore on 2022-February-24 06:37:40 EST, Thursday - (0 / 0 / 0)
- Maybe... - griffith on 2022-February-22 16:31:52 EST, Tuesday - (0 / 0 / 1)
  - Have you noticed? - Plyushkin on 2022-February-22 17:03:05 EST, Tuesday - (0 / 0 / 0)
Oxford may differ - Hajduk on 2022-February-19 21:46:19 EST, Saturday - (0 / 0 / 2)
- Yes -- but anyway TS did not mean to reshape... - griffith on 2022-February-19 21:55:41 EST, Saturday - (0 / 0 / 1)
  - Reshaping the language - Hajduk on 2022-February-19 23:32:26 EST, Saturday - (0 / 0 / 0)
because THEY ARE not logical: - griffith on 2022-February-19 15:36:46 EST, Saturday - (0 / 0 / 0)