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To: SeekAndFind

One of the strengths of English is having fewer pronoun beyond I/me, us/we, they/them, you, along with the whole complex mess of conjugating verbs that go with them.
That’s supposedly why English took off and spread, while German, with multiple tenses that we dropped; it is hard to learn.
And now liberals want to add way more complexity to the language and police you for not using the pronouns hypersensitive people who are mentally ill demand that you use.


14 posted on 09/20/2015 6:38:57 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

English, and other Indo-European languages, has one personal pronoun. It takes different forms depending on number, case, person and gender.

All the fuss is over the third person, singular, which depending on case and gender can be expressed as

Nominative: he, she, it
Possessive: his, her, its
Objective: him, her, it

Pick a column.


20 posted on 09/20/2015 6:47:18 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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