• @DomeGuy
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    104 months ago

    “they” has always been proper, it just used to be incorrectly taught agaist like split infinitives and ending a sentence with a proposition.

    Wikipedia dates its first usge as over 500 years ago, and complaints less than 300.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

    • @Thrillhouse
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      24 months ago

      Take that one up with my English professors in University.

      • @Dearth
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        34 months ago

        Just because your English professors taught at a university, does not mean they are the final authoritative word on how the English language is spoken.

        • @Taniwha420
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          34 months ago

          That’s kind of the point: there isn’t an authority on English. The closest we come is a bunch of English elites making up informal rules on grammar, spelling, and pronunciation and judging everyone else for not using their version. … And a bunch of try-hards who enforce their arbitrary and often nonsensical 'rules '.

          If it parses, it rolls.

    • @talkstothecat
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      24 months ago

      *preposition. Many people end sentences with proposition ;-)