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submitted 3 months ago by vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (8 children)

And English is imprecise for "you" as well. For he/she/it grammar at least doesn't change. Substitute that pronoun for they and suddenly the grammar switches to plural. That totally confuses me.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (7 children)

“They” can quite happily function as singular. I asked my friend about this and they gave me their opinion. They told me that they use “they” or “them” to discuss people when their biological sex is unimportant or unknown. I would like to ask them more but they have to leave. They tell me that they’ll be back later.

They (singular) say something. He/she/it says something. They (all) say something. You (all) say something. I say something. You (singular) say something. You’ll notice “he/she/it” seems to be the irregular outlier here. English is strange.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

"He goes". Correct.

"She goes." Correct.

"It goes." Correct.

"They goes." Wrong. And that's just confusing for people who never ever were taught that in any form of education. I know it's an old construct and not a new innovation but for people like me it feels just off. It's not malice on my part to act against different genders, I'm just explaining why that part of the English language is weird

[–] sgnl@midwest.social 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's not wrong, it's just generally offensive since colloquially "it" refers to objects rather than a individual.

And as it follows, "it" is used as a insulting term when people want to dehumanize something.

Also it's "They go" and "I go", perfectly serviceable for singular use.

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