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Singular they rule (pawb.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Panel 1: A person with the text "Singular 'they'" written on them smiling with open arms.
Panel 2: "Singular 'They'" beaten up by others who said, "Singular they is ungrammatical. It's too confusing," "How can anyone use plural pronouns for singular," and "Every pronoun should only have one purpose."
Panel 3: "You" hiding from the mob who was beating "Singular 'They'"
Panel 4: "German 'Sie'" hiding with even more fear next to "You"

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

when you realize they singular was sjw invented

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Man I love SJWs

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Actually it's older than people think. Shakespeare used it for stuff like "Every knight grabbed their sword", and even for talking about a specific person it's not a new phenomenon to use singular they if the gender doesn't matter (so I was told in a linguistics sub over on r*ddit when I insisted it was new)

The only new thing is that people say, it's their prefered pronoun.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

See my other comments in this thread, but Shakespeare did not use singular they to refer to a specific, known person. That is a new invention.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I inserted a comma to make my meaning more clear, I hope. I'm not a native speaker so sorry if it was ambiguous

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

TIL sjws invented a part of language… half a millennia ago.

Wouldn’t that just make it… part of the language at this point?

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