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minus-squarestinky@redlemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·2 months agoyou did though, it was your first line: My hot take: there’s no such thing as “singular they”
minus-squareMeThisGuy@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agopedantic language nerds on Lemmy? no way!
minus-squareMeThisGuy@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agonm, the rest of the thread is the same… you are not alone.
minus-squareprocrastitron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agoIt’s obvious what I meant from that is the opposite of how you are construing it. You need to actually read the entire comment.
minus-squarestinky@redlemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoit’s not obvious, sorry. if it were, people would be agreeing with you
minus-squareJankatarch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 month agoThey are saying plural means 1 or many while singular means only 1. So ‘they’ was always plural and plural always included singular. Sadly dictionary definition says plural does not include 1.
you did though, it was your first line:
pedantic language nerds on Lemmy? no way!
nm, the rest of the thread is the same… you are not alone.
It’s obvious what I meant from that is the opposite of how you are construing it. You need to actually read the entire comment.
it’s not obvious, sorry. if it were, people would be agreeing with you
They are saying plural means 1 or many while singular means only 1. So ‘they’ was always plural and plural always included singular.
Sadly dictionary definition says plural does not include 1.