Friday, April 9, 2010

Really?

I firmly believe that one should NOT attempt to fix another individual's grammar or word choice if one does not do it properly and/or cannot use the appropriate language oneself.
"I had a chem professor in graduate school that used to butcher the English language regularly (and yes they were from the US and not a foreign national...)"
Okay. Dude. Your "a chem professor" was not a "they." Just saying.
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2 comments:

Greg said...

My dear sister, you should recognize that the English language is not determined by a book anywhere, and that "they" has been an accepted gender-neutral pronoun for a very long time.

April 9, 2010 at 10:52 AM
Bailey said...

I saw that, too, and it bothered me. If you don't know the person's gender, 'they' is acceptable. But if you knew them, just... no.

April 9, 2010 at 11:15 AM

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