FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day agoThe singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticingmessage-squaremessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1217arrow-down18
arrow-up1209arrow-down1message-squareThe singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticingFreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square43fedilink
minus-squarehenfredemars@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 day agoI wish my English teachers didn’t beat me up so hard (figuratively) as incorrect use of ‘they’ when it has a long history of usage in the singular.
minus-squareFreshParsnip@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 day agoI’m really curious as to how singular they started being taught as incorrect. I really don’t think it was originally intended to be transphobic.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·21 hours agoI imagine it was fashionable at some point in the last six centuries.
minus-squareKristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-24 hours agoIt was around the 1700s, right about when “you” became a singular pronoun
I wish my English teachers didn’t beat me up so hard (figuratively) as incorrect use of ‘they’ when it has a long history of usage in the singular.
I’m really curious as to how singular they started being taught as incorrect. I really don’t think it was originally intended to be transphobic.
I imagine it was fashionable at some point in the last six centuries.
It was around the 1700s, right about when “you” became a singular pronoun