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Old 01-13-2018, 10:46 PM   #81 (permalink)
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it's not "multiple people" it's gender neutral as the last 6 pages have given examples of

perfectly grammatically reasonable to use "they" when gender is ambiguous
How about people with more than 2 genders, I could go on and on and on and on.
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Old 01-13-2018, 10:53 PM   #82 (permalink)
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who has more than two genders?
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Old 01-13-2018, 11:07 PM   #83 (permalink)
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who has more than two genders?
Oh you haven't heard of that ****?
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Old 01-14-2018, 12:09 PM   #84 (permalink)
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See that's where this all leads, you now have people calling themselves multiple people. You can brush it off as people can do whatever they want, but we're seeing a fundamental change in how we treat certain things. When you have people in society that are identifying as different people and that's socially accepted I think that's where you should look back and see what mistakes we made.
Keep fighting those important battles, brave one. If we don't speak up now, everyone's going to develop multiple personality disorder.
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Old 01-14-2018, 02:31 PM   #85 (permalink)
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On the rare occasions when I don't know someone's gender, I refer to the person by name. If I don't know that, I phrase my sentences so that no pronouns are necessary. As somewhat of a linguistic aesthete, I think it sounds better than using "they" or the contrived "ze/zer."
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Old 01-14-2018, 02:42 PM   #86 (permalink)
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But they and them won't lose their meaning, they've (hehe) always been used both singularly and plurally.

And, slap an s on the end? Theys, thems, theirss?

Or am I just being retarded



Ah, ok - thanks for clearing that up.
I think certain people would have a problem with you slapping an ass on their end...
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hiss/herss??
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Honestly, if someone wanted you to refer to them as... well, them... is it really that hard to make the switch? Regardless of your views on gender, how often are you going to actually be referring to said individual in the third person, especially in a conversation? Hell, I've gone entire bull-sessions without once having to say someone's name.
Bull-sessions? Do tell!

Seriously: you can really upset someone by calling them he if they identify as a female, or vice versa, so using they or them is the best way to do it. Not to mention those names that could be either until you meet the person (and sometimes not even then) - Vivian, Cameron, Francis etc. We're not talking about written forms by the way...
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Old 01-14-2018, 02:53 PM   #87 (permalink)
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Keep fighting those important battles, brave one. If we don't speak up now, everyone's going to develop multiple personality disorder.
And then you call that effeminate dude in your head a man and she goes on an SJW rant and we're right back where we started.
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Old 01-14-2018, 03:00 PM   #88 (permalink)
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Old 01-14-2018, 11:07 PM   #89 (permalink)
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pretty wild to go out of your way to try to convince yourself that this is a conspiracy against grammar instead of simply respecting someone's preferred pronouns
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