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'They' named as Merriam-Webster dictionary's word of the year
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It's great for nonbinary people, also a victory for students who get their third persons edited to "he" by overzealous English teachers when they works fine
I can't believe the dictionary is ruining my childhood and turning house pets gay.
a tack, hello coppers!
a tack, hello coppers!
That's an interesting way of spelling "shit".
Any English teacher who corrects a neutral singular they into "he" is garbage tbh
My version of this story was a teacher from over 10 years ago. She was well-intentioned and otherwise helpful.
Fucking yes. This is so cool to see, they're so good.
Bonus from earlier in the year:
Bonus from earlier in the year:
Wow - people do that? Jesus christ.
When translating, I purposefully always change third persons to they...
Yes but they'd have to change their name from "reactionists" to "be mad at stuff guys"
For added context: Before changing my mind, I studied to become an ESL teacher here in Austria. Granted, that was only 7 years ago, but the idea that a teacher would discourage students from using singular they 10 years ago is still astonishing.
Past threads around the singular they have been peppered with concern trolls acting like it's the end of the English language, hand wringing about how it will actually work in practice and how confusing that would be.
They know what's up.
The first time I saw someone get mad at me for using 'they' on a forum I was relating an anecdote. I was only being gender neutral to help keep the subjects anonymised (the internet is always smaller than you think!). Some people get really triggered by it.
At least when I was in school, it was always one of those things like "never use singular 'they', always use 'he or she'; don't split infinitives; don't end sentences in a preposition" kind of grammar prescriptivism that always seemed like it was being taught "because that's what The Book says is 'correct' and that's what I learned when I was in school" etc.
At least at the time, it never came across like some anti-non-binary thing, just another one of those hold-over rules from like the 1800s that was arbitrarily made (usually based on rules from another language, like Latin or French) to distinguish high-class, educated people from lower-class people, or whatever.
As it turns out, singular they, split infinitives, and ending sentences in a preposition are all pretty natural in English and have been around for centuries. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
OP
OP
Cool.
Previous winners if anyone is curious:
Previous winners if anyone is curious:
this is actually a weirdly compelling history of the 21st century
2016 is apt.
They will will they?
They choose better winners than the Oscars nyuck nyuck
