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  • Panel 1: A person with the text “Singular ‘they’” written on them smiling with open arms.
  • Panel 2: “Singular ‘They’” beaten up by others who said, “Singular they is ungrammatical. It’s too confusing,” “How can anyone use plural pronouns for singular,” and “Every pronoun should only have one purpose.”
  • Panel 3: “You” hiding from the mob who was beating “Singular ‘They’”
  • Panel 4: “German ‘Sie’” hiding with even more fear next to “You”
  • BitSound@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    See my other comments in this thread, but Shakespeare did not use singular they to refer to a specific, known person. That is a new invention.

    • lugal
      3·
      1 year ago

      I inserted a comma to make my meaning more clear, I hope. I’m not a native speaker so sorry if it was ambiguous