• humorlessrepost@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Bogus is just doing that new anti-trans-panic performance the nazis do now where they pretend English hasn’t used they/them for unspecified gender for hundreds of years. She’s a troll.

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      6 days ago

      Yeah it’s an odd one. You could say my friend Bob is also going and they will meet you in the reception.

      Perfectly normal way of speaking and nothing to do with transgender stuff.

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        6 days ago

        Ah, great idea for progress in English, they have. Not only ‘the’ for all sexes, but ‘they’ for all, now they say. Great idea they have, yes. 🤣

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          5 days ago

          Singular they had existed for centuries before your miserable existence.

          It’s a way to refer to someone in the 3rd person without knowing their gender. If you do know their gender, you can use the proper gendered pronouns.

          Not only ‘the’ for all sexes

          ‘The’ has always been gender neutral in English because English doesn’t assign gender to nouns. Thus grammatically, a gender-specific “the” isn’t necessary unlike in German or Spanish where all nouns have grammatical genders. And if you come back at me with “‘the’ isn’t even that old, it used to be spelled ‘ye’”, well the problem there is that it was only printed that way for convenience, the pronunciation was never with a “y”.

          “It” is incorrect for using about a person as well, unless referring to a baby or a small child. Why? It’s just how English has been spoken for a long time now, and how it’s still used. Language rules should reflect usage, not the other way around.

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            5 days ago

            …. before your miserable existence.

            You should not be looking into the mirror too long. It seems that you got a pretty brain damage.

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              4 days ago

              I’m not the one making deliberately obtuse comments about completely valid grammatical constructs to make a political point.

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                4 days ago

                Well, apparently I communicate sufficiently in English for you to address my points accordingly. And it also shows a certain mental poverty, especially a lack of self-reflection, not just to nitpick infantile grammatical errors, but also to stick your nose into things where you know you’ll get virtually slapped. But as I already mentioned: I can’t turn donkeys like you into a racehorse. This mental effort, if possible for you at all, should come from you.

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      6 days ago

      Please, correct it you want to say, then ‘it’ say, you must 😂