Poll of the Day > Singular they is grammatically correct
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PieforcePiedom 08/26/17 1:22:39 PM #1: |
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Foppe 08/26/17 1:31:32 PM #2: |
They is correct.
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faramir77 08/26/17 1:33:47 PM #3: |
I find it weird how other languages have plural second person terms ("vosotros" and "ustedes" in Spanish for instance) but we shit on people who try to introduce plural second person terms in English (particularly "y'all").
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Kana 08/26/17 1:37:59 PM #4: |
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Judgmenl 08/26/17 1:38:41 PM #5: |
Yes they/they is valid.
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adjl 08/26/17 2:00:28 PM #6: |
faramir77 posted...
I find it weird how other languages have plural second person terms ("vosotros" and "ustedes" in Spanish for instance) but we shit on people who try to introduce plural second person terms in English (particularly "y'all"). "You" used to be primarily a plural second-person pronoun, with "Thou" being the singular form, but that got phased out and "You" just fills both roles. I'm fine with that, since the nature of second-person speech is such that quantity is usually unambiguous (and when it isn't, "you all" clarifies it immediately). Hating on "y'all" is mostly just because it's a regional thing and it's taught as part of formal English, so it gets the whole uneducated redneck stereotype going. Judgmenl posted... Yes they/they is valid. Indeed. It's valid, but I don't like it because it introduces quantitative ambiguity. I'd like to see a third-person singular pronoun, but "it" has been ruined by dehumanizing connotations because people are dicks (plus it's the go-to pronoun for concepts and objects, and therefore gets used very frequently even without using it to describe people), and making up new ones is hard. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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GetMagnaCarter 08/26/17 3:13:08 PM #7: |
in some dialects (North England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, parts of Canada, etc) "yous" or "youse" is used as the plural of You
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SKARDAVNELNATE 08/26/17 3:20:40 PM #8: |
Anyone seen PieforcePiedom? Where'd they go? Oh, did I just miss them?
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PieforcePiedom 08/26/17 3:28:18 PM #9: |
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TheCyborgNinja 08/26/17 4:53:48 PM #10: |
GetMagnaCarter posted...
in some dialects (North England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, parts of Canada, etc) "yous" or "youse" is used as the plural of You  --- "message parlor" ? do you mean the post office ? - SlayerX888 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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