Posted on 12/10/2019 7:48:48 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
Merriam-Webster just gave the personal pronoun “they” the word of the year title:
Merriam-Webster recently added a new definition to its online dictionary to reflect use of “they” as relating to a person whose gender identity is nonbinary. In October, the American Psychological Assn. endorsed “they” as a singular third-person pronoun in its latest style guide for scholarly writing.Of all of the wokeness that I am not very woke about, the pronoun nonsense probably holds the least hope for me every achieving wokeitude. I am still too much a fan of science to believe that there are 6,000 genders that we can all begin identifying as by age three.
An individual calling himself or herself “they” it sounds like we’re dealing with multiple personality issues.
He, him. She, her.
We’re done here.
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“...In October, the American Psychological Assn. endorsed “they” as a singular third-person pronoun in its latest style guide for scholarly writing. ...”
Uh, methinks “scholarly writing” when associated with the APA, is one of the major oxymorons.
Not possible!
It kind of of fits. Since most of them hear voices in their head!
Improper use of pronouns is a pet peeve for me. Not long ago I was texting a friend when he used “they” to refer to a baseball player. I told him what I thought and have hardly heard from him since. He said his wife is a teacher and even she doesn’t complain about it. I know she’s a lib, so I imagine she trained him in PC language bastardization.
No way will I conform to this BS.
I will never address any one person with the pronoun “they”, nor will I further indulge anyone who is offended by my refusal. Words have meaning.
I really like the transmogrification of “guys” to describe a bunch of gals. “Hey, what are you guys up to today?”
“Not much. They is going to the mall” (pointing to one of the “guys”).
Will next year’s dick-tionary include “zey and zem”?
I’ve used the pronoun “they” in a technically grammatically incorrect way for decades whenever I was speaking about an individual whose gender I was not aware. While I did not do it to cover for gender identity questions, but just to speak generically about someone genderlessly, I was always a aware of how acward it is to read the plural pronoun referencing an individual, most people have never picked a fight about it.
We are done here! We are using the “royal we”, by the way. Those are our preferred pronouns, so that is how the commoners shall refer to us.
I know what you are saying.
I always dealt with the unknown gender problem by using the rather PC construction “he/she.” Yes, it is highly awkward and very PC, but, in my mind, it is preferable to using a plural pronoun to describe a singular object.
A plural pronoun describing a singular object is just nails on the blackboard to my ears.
LOL...”nails on the blackboard” — that sounds like another Bidenism. Us oldsters understand each other.
I am sick and tired of all this crap, if there is a dangle it's He and there is no dangle only angle it's she. Now bear in mind even if there has been a dickectomy or a adadicktomy, the prime rule remains as it has always been per God's recipe. XX is female and XY is male, no matter how many different letters some misguided mentally ill Homo-sapiens throw into the soup.
All this crap has arisen post WW II (and really post 1960s / post Viet Nam) because we are too wealthy, don’t have a real existential common enemy (Soviet Union), and too many people don’t have to work for a living and can indulge in this nonsensical garbage.
When the country was serious, we didn’t have to tolerate crap like this.
Actually, it is. There are SIX viable X and Y gene combinations that have produced living human beings. There are only a few of these occurences, just as there are few midgets, dwarfs, giants,bearded ladies, and hermaphrodites. Most humans are of the two primary gender identities, but other 'mixtures' do exist.
What mixture of X and Y people have is not the real issue.
The real issue is that ‘they’ want the power to decide what words ‘others’ may or may not use.
On behalf of all the schizophrenics, I will be suing for the power to force you to address me and all the voices in my head as THEY. We are a good team and they all deserve credit.
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