Out of the Blue

AP stylebook now allows the "singular they" in some instances. I got excited over some semi-official approval of a gender-neutral pronoun, but this is apparently only for cases where the subject identifies with neither gender. That's all well and good, but English still could use a gender-neutral pronoun for other cases, and I will continue to use "they" or "them" for the purpose until we get one, even if its technically incorrect. If anyone has a problem with that, they can come and see me.

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jdreyer wrote on Mar 25, 2017, 16:25:
A gender neutral pronoun is a small step but an important one. I welcome our robotic gender neutral pronoun overlords. Oh, wait. Wrong meme.

On the other hand, then we can finally call everyone "it" how it should be...
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