• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    2 months ago

    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.

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      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.

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          It was around the 1700s, right about when “you” became a singular pronoun

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              https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pronoun If wewbull is using a different definition of pronoun than Merriam-Webster (and all dictionaries), then I guess wewbull is the one who’s correct, and not Merriam Webster.

              You is a second person pronoun, it’s used in place of a proper noun. A person’s name when talking to them, in this case