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OMG(osh). I cannot fathom the usage of pronouns without first referencing the noun. It’s like using an acronym without explaining what is the meaning. It’s like being in a meeting where people use occupational jargon but I am not in on the lingo. It’s like students not providing the units for a number. - I do not know what you are talking about! Monkeys, moo-moos, or marbles?

Third-person pronouns - say ‘em real fast:

he-she-it

Think about what you just said but with a Southern drawl.

Now, get off the pot. Wash your hands with plenty of soap and warm water for at least 20 seconds. And please, from now on clarify.

(That was a seventh-grade “teaching moment” lesson, modified for this audience. Perhaps it would be funnier if you were a middle school student.)

#itriedtobefunny


681 posted on 06/17/2020 12:26:57 PM PDT by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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684 posted on 06/17/2020 12:28:57 PM PDT by Steven W.
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To: lyby
(That was a seventh-grade “teaching moment” lesson, modified for this audience. Perhaps it would be funnier if you were a middle school student.)
#itriedtobefunny

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I just read that out loud in my "normal" accent, grandson gave a very strange look, then laughed and ran off yelling. You got us in trouble with Mom and Nana

700 posted on 06/17/2020 12:45:16 PM PDT by Bama_84_928
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“he-she-it” it was I call the kind you can’t tell what the heck he/she/it is... I’m just trying to be polite and observe proper gender fluid pronouns, really!


709 posted on 06/17/2020 12:56:46 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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