Re:Ask HN: my Mac app is part of a bundle What do I do now?
by gte910h on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @07:31AM
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> Using the grammatically incorrect "their" in favour of randomly picking a gender pronoun
Talk to Jane Austin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Bernard Shaw, Lewis Carrol, The King James Bible, and Shakespeare if someone convinced you "They" isn't a valid singular pronoun for indeterminate sex. It is. Some stupid Latin-based grammar school teachers do not get to re-design our language by looking at Latin (where the odd anti-They crowd came from) and making us say He/She everywhere or sound like sexist assholes.
"They" is a valid third person singular, just like "you" is a valid second person singular.
Talk to Jane Austin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Bernard Shaw, Lewis Carrol, The King James Bible, and Shakespeare if someone convinced you "They" isn't a valid singular pronoun for indeterminate sex. It is. Some stupid Latin-based grammar school teachers do not get to re-design our language by looking at Latin (where the odd anti-They crowd came from) and making us say He/She everywhere or sound like sexist assholes.
"They" is a valid third person singular, just like "you" is a valid second person singular.