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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing

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The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

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I imagine it was fashionable at some point in the last six centuries.
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  It was around the 1700s, right about when “you” became a singular pronoun
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    “you” isn’t a pronoun at all.

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