Coss Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 Gender neutral pronouns I usually don't care what people want to be referred to as, in the internet age when people have pseudonyms like 'flirty-crocodile-267', names don't seem to matter. Coming from a family that includes Journalists trained in English, not trained in TikTok, the use of Them or They for a single person does not work for me. If we accept that the person, cannot settle on one gender, and that is their justification, for using Them or They, then what about people with 17 personalities? Are these folk condemned to being neither but possibly both genders? I reckon gender various (gender-various, you saw it here first) people should find new descriptors, like himf or herm or hef or shem or multi-shoop-a-shama-lamba-a-ding-dong https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/20/entertainment/jennifer-lopez-emme-gender/index.html " they're my favorite duet partner of all time." See? english not working. Also for Yankee spelling... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 All I can say then is that your relatives were not trained by native English speakers. They / Them has been used as non bender singular for Centuries well before “Gender-Various” (TM Coss 2022) picked up on it. For example, Give them enough rope, implies singular is going to hand themselves not a group of people. I’ll give them a bell, implies making a phone call to one person and not multiple of people What you are seeing is the contemporary use of They / Them as a bender neutral pronoun, they (plural) have hijacked the words. Other words which some think are exclusively plural but also singular include ”Our” especially in “Our Kid” a colloquial Northern English term meaning “My Sibling” ever to this day, when my sister emails or phones me her salutation is “ alright out kid” “Us” us can mean me, as in giv us a bell ( give me a phone call) and best summed up by Yozzer Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff and his infamous Gis (Give us) a Job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted June 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 So you are a multi-shoop-a-shama-lamba-a-ding-dong ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 No, I am Ding a ding a dang a dong dong ding dong dingy dang son of a gun. I also happen to speak English English, I was at a Grammar School which was established before 1840, as opposed to the bastardised Kiwi English spoken by you colonials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 Us from the USA do NOT speak English...we speak American 55555555555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 6 hours ago, cavanami said: Us from the USA do NOT speak English Never a truer word said 🤪 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted June 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 15 hours ago, Mekong said: bastardised Kiwi English spoken by you colonials I didn't expect you to go off like a frog in a sock, Yeah Nah... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 Purely Tongue in Cheek, you know us Brits we take the piss nothing meant by it 🙃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted June 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 Yes I know, I was just giving yer tail a tug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 Did something get changed? The shopping chain here in Thailand, Lotus, has changed their name to Lotus's... Did the rules change? 874 years ago when I was taught English...it was if the word ended with a s, then the new store name should be, Lotus' Comments? correctness? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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