FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months 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-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up1180arrow-down17
arrow-up1173arrow-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 · 3 months agomessage-square13linkfedilink
minus-squarenotreallyhere@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·3 months agoit genuinely causes confusion though, someone told me “they” (a different person), were going to be there early and I was like “they’re all going to come early?!”
minus-squarerbos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months ago‘You’ has a similar ambiguity, being a plural word originally, but most people muddle through that. I do think we should bring back thee/thy/thou as singular, but whatever.
minus-squareCevilia (they/she/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoSkill issue. Sounds like they need to hear it more often tbh.
it genuinely causes confusion though, someone told me “they” (a different person), were going to be there early and I was like “they’re all going to come early?!”
‘You’ has a similar ambiguity, being a plural word originally, but most people muddle through that.
I do think we should bring back thee/thy/thou as singular, but whatever.
Skill issue. Sounds like they need to hear it more often tbh.