What a Programmer Sees When He Watches Inception

Re:What a Programmer Sees When He Watches Inception by socksy on Sunday July 18, 2010 @10:48PM (#1527435)

That's interesting, I don't think it makes one seem anymore uneducated than any other piece of correctly used grammar (correct use of the word "one", "none of them is" etc). I wouldn't regard my self as uneducated, having had the privelege to go to a good (if not public/private) school.

By any chance is this one of those quirks of American grammar usage that I've not come across before. The only times where I've seen disapproval of the use of 'they' in that fashion was on the Internet... By any chance is this another Ame

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Re:What a Programmer Sees When He Watches Inception by pak on Monday July 19, 2010 @10:26AM (#1528745)

"They is so smart!" --> the apparent subject-verb disagreement is just too unfamiliar to most ears.

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Re:What a Programmer Sees When He Watches Inception by socksy on Monday July 19, 2010 @11:10AM (#1528914)

You are still supposed to use plural declensions despite talking about a single person.

For instance: "if such a person existed, they were very quiet about their existence". Note that it's not "they was", which is grammatically incorrect.

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Re:What a Programmer Sees When He Watches Inception by elblanco on Sunday July 25, 2010 @12:44PM (#1545809)

That's because it should read, "they are so smart".

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