spez@sh.itjust.works to > Greentext@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agoAnon uses arch btwsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square116fedilinkarrow-up1732arrow-down126
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minus-squareOgygus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down57·2 years agoWhat do you mean they? He clearly says he’s a singular person
minus-squareHolyDuckTurtle@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoThey is, and has been for a very long time, perfectly valid for singular use. Most people I’ve encounted do it all the time without noticing between sentences.
minus-squareLazaroFilm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·2 years agoWhere you you see a gender qualifier in the post? If you don’t know you don’t assume because you turn into a donkey or something like that.
minus-squarelemmonade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 years agowhat? where? look at the username, that’s clearly anonymous, the hacker group.
minus-squareHadriscus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·2 years agoIn english, they stands for both plural and gender-neural (when you don’t know whether the person you’re referring to is male or female).
minus-squareSurface_Detail@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·edit-22 years ago There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me As if I were their well-acquainted friend A comedy of errors, act IV, scene 3
minus-squarecan@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 years agoThey has been used to refer to an unspecified individual since before you were born.
What do you mean they?
He clearly says he’s a singular person
They is, and has been for a very long time, perfectly valid for singular use.
Most people I’ve encounted do it all the time without noticing between sentences.
Where you you see a gender qualifier in the post? If you don’t know you don’t assume because you turn into a donkey or something like that.
what? where? look at the username, that’s clearly anonymous, the hacker group.
In english, they stands for both plural and gender-neural (when you don’t know whether the person you’re referring to is male or female).
A comedy of errors, act IV, scene 3
They has been used to refer to an unspecified individual since before you were born.