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To: Jeff Head
“They” can also be singular when used in such context,

Not in actual English. Only in Leftspeak. The adoption of Leftspeak by conservatives affects their thinking. Words and grammar are the tools by which the brain thinks about things. Turn over the design of words and grammar to the Borg and you gradually lose your ability to think outside their box. You accept their definitions and conventions when you use their shorthand.

When MSM collectively switched the politically symbolic colors, red and blue, conservatives accepted it with hardly a whimper. Now the color designations have lost their meaning altogether. The left's proud use of Red to designate the totalitarian left once told people a lot about certain groups without having to parse speech and listen to all of it to see if it added up. Bit by bit I see the conservatives on FR adopt the patterns prescribed by the Left. The omnisexual "they" is a feminist construction to keep it in our minds that there is NO difference between males and females. I suspect if you reverted to the proper use of pronouns you would feel very uncomfortable not using at least "he/she-him/her" or maybe it should be "she/he"- you don't want the ladies to think you are dissing them.

28 posted on 07/28/2014 8:01:34 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: arthurus

Good for you on the grammar front.

There aren’t many of us remaining up here.

Good communication is the enemy of lies and deception, of course, and indeed of oppression. The other side (Obama and his minions, leftist politicians and judges, the ‘educators’) knows this and has worked for decades now to put us at a disadvantage.

Clear speech and clear thinking are as dangerous to them as any firearm.


30 posted on 07/28/2014 8:11:34 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: arthurus

Well, you can go on and on with your Bravo Sierra. but you know what I meant, I know what I meant, and everyone reading it knew exactly what I said too.

So knock yourself out with your sophistry if you must, I will continue to tell you and anyone else that if someone assaulted my elderly mom, they, meaning that someone, would pay the price.


45 posted on 07/29/2014 4:20:33 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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