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Call Me ‘They’: The singular “they” is inclusive and flexible, and it breaks the stifling [tr]
NY Times ^
| July 10, 2019
| Farhad Manjoo
Posted on 07/14/2019 5:37:00 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: buwaya
The personal pronoun is “siya”, plural “sila”. It is proper to go borrow that word. No, it is not. It is proper to QUIT PANDERING TO THE DELUSIONS OF LUNATICS.
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posted on
07/14/2019 7:31:11 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: All
“Though I do think men should wear makeup...”
I confess that, yes, I wear styptic pencil occasionally.
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posted on
07/14/2019 7:42:36 AM PDT
by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
To: I want the USA back
Language functions in generalities, with one pronoun for men, one for women, and another for things.
Farsi (Persian) has one pronoun: e, for he, she, & it. I thought it ironic when feminists demanded that English change its pronoun usage: “everyone brought his book” for the awkward “everyone took out his or her book” or the incorrect “everyone took out their book”. If things like this made a difference why Iran would have the freest women and girls in the world.
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posted on
07/14/2019 7:43:31 AM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: Sgt_Schultze
In the grammatical scheme of things, a pronoun is supposed be a substitute for a noun.
So, let’s apply that to the first sentence of this individual’s Wikipedia page.
“Farhad Manjoo is a journalist..” becomes “They is a journalist..” which in turn compels me to reply, “No, they isn’t.”
To: CodeToad
This person claims to be hetero who prefers to be addressed in tranny-speak.
Either he’s just trying individually to be the absolute trendiest, in order to stand out from the crowd, or the progs as a group are moving the goalposts again, trying to require everyone to “identify” using screwy pronouns.
We (meaning, The Royal “We”) refuse to participate in their abomination.
To: C19fan
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posted on
07/14/2019 8:32:13 AM PDT
by
Chode
(Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
To: C19fan
I will observe your self centered maleness tainted by the innapropriate gentleness (makeup?) and call you a confused dude who needs to read Ggenesis 1-3.
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posted on
07/14/2019 8:45:47 AM PDT
by
lurk
To: C19fan
No, I won’t.
Not just no, but hell no.
To: C19fan
I have a singular for all of these mental deficients.........A-Hole!
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posted on
07/14/2019 10:21:21 AM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: C19fan
They Live, a Movie about Aliens taking over the World.
Them, a Movie about Giant Ants taking over the World.
Communists, the reality of Democrats taking over America.
To: C19fan
Acting insane is a sign of loyalty to these people.
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posted on
07/14/2019 11:01:01 AM PDT
by
Salman
(The Democrat agenda in one word -- revenge.)
To: C19fan
No. Stop messing with our language. You can’t co-opt a word that is so basic. No matter how many concessions are made it is never enough...so no more.
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posted on
07/14/2019 11:27:16 AM PDT
by
Anima Mundi
(Breathes there a man with soul so dead...)
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