Posted on 03/25/2017 8:32:08 AM PDT by NoKoolAidforMe
For the first time, The Associated Press now permits journalists to use "they" as a singular pronoun. The AP announced the style change Friday at the American Copy Editors Society conference in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The change follows years of questions among copy editors, reporters and editors about the use of language specifically about people who are non-binary and don't use gendered pronouns.
The change is in effect online and will be in the print edition of the 2017 AP Stylebook on May 31. The new edition includes 200 new and updated entries.
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And here I always thought when talking about a group of people, “They” was used to point out that single group. I am so glad the Ivory Tower Elites have set the world straight. lol
They is upset?
I thought this was satire.
Next they will replace words with grunts.
Newspeak
Only accidentally.
This is not a political thing.
“They” works, linguistically when speaking of a single person for whom, nothing in the context identifies THEM other than they are a person. When the information IS NOT gender specific, but we are speaking of a single person, “they” works.
Someone saw the light turn green, and then THEY crossed the street.
The use of “they” in the singular works, IN CERTAIN CONTEXTS.
They is a bitch.
Every time I hear someone use they to refer to him/herself, I think he/she must have multiple personalities. That is the result of serious child abuse, usually sexual.
Interesting.
In my editing, I’ll let occasional singular theys by. It’s good to be sensitive to the fact that some people are offended by the generic “he”; and other constructs like “he or she,” or recasting a sentence in the plural, are often awkward. Besides, the singular they is well established in spoken English, though admittedly it looks awkward on the page. It also predates stupid made-up personal gender pronouns by decades.
The use of they in the singular works, IN CERTAIN CONTEXTS.
quite simply, no it doesn’t...
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