They/Them
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I had a math teacher that was there to coach football… instead of the normal method for balancing equations and such he’d insist you use his wonky play call diagrams.
Which made all the other algebra and trig teachers have re-teach kids coming out of his last class.
Dude was a stereotypical jock that was going to give one of his athletes a free pass for stuffing a friend of mine into a locker. At least until i stuffed the tight end in his locker, instead.
So. How about this. We swap the keys and go all strangers on a train?
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What issue? I fail to see how that impacts you negatively in any way.
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Thou shalt use proper pronouns and not be lazy recycling plural pronouns in the singular. What next, are thou planing to use a singular "we" like inbred royalty?
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I learned English at school and the first time I encountered singular they was when my teacher explained it to us. Sometimes non native speakers are less prescriptive than native speakers
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So you're not, in fact, "super supportive" at all then, are you, and are not, in fact, worth hearing out..
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Are you a horse ?
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In Finnish language there are no gender specific pronouns only gender neutral one hän/hänen.
They/them still sounds weird to use even if I know it can be used to refer single person. When talking or writing fast I'll still often accidentally default to using he/him even for females which I then have to correct.
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Don't use it then.
The only time you would ever need to use someone's pronouns is when they're not part of the conversation anyway.
I couldn't care less what people refer to me as if I'm not there.
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I get irked when someone says “he or she,” especially repeatedly, because the singular “they” is so much easier to hear and read.
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The only time you would ever need to use someone’s pronouns is when they’re not part of the conversation anyway.
no? it would be weird to use in a one-on-one conversation, true. but it is fairly common to use the third person pronoun of someone during a group conversation, even while they are there
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Youse guys should use the plural you
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I had this exact same problem growing up. When I started drinking excessive amounts of beer the pressure became enough to break through, and I finally started burping. That somehow fixed my body completely, and I've been able to burp normally ever since, but my God I'll never forget the pain of being unable to burp. Literally the worst pain of my life
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"I was with Dan the other day. They forgot their keys at home. They said they had to go back to get them."
Literally not hard at all?
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By chance I actually do come from an area that uses it! Although it's more of a "yiz" here
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These people don’t care if it’s grammatically correct. They just don’t like trans people.
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Someone correct me, but "you" was originally plural. The correct way to address a singular person is "thou".
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You sound fun to hang out with. I'm in.
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I'm glad you can belch now.
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I think it's originally from Red vs Blue
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When I started interacting with a non-binary person more often, the only reflexive pronoun that came to mind was ‘themselves.’ As in, “They bought themselves a pair of socks for their birthday.” It felt a bit awkward since I couldn’t shake the plural association in my head, but I still used it to be respectful.
Then I remembered that the word ‘themself’ exists and I felt stupid.