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minus-squarejkrtn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·7 months agoPerhaps it was the English teachers who were wrong. Correct or not, people have been using it like that for a while. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
minus-squarehenfredemars@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-27 months agoFascinating! I didn’t know there was an article about this. This use of singular they had emerged by the 14th century, about a century after the plural they. That’s more than official enough for me!
minus-squareDojan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-27 months ago My child dresses itself. “Ma, I’m a boy!” I adore how callous that sentence sounds.
Perhaps it was the English teachers who were wrong.
Correct or not, people have been using it like that for a while.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
Fascinating! I didn’t know there was an article about this.
That’s more than official enough for me!
“Ma, I’m a boy!”
I adore how callous that sentence sounds.