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23-05-2021, 10:24 AM | #26 | ||
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People type a stream of consciousness and the word that comes out comes out. You could argue that people should take the time to proof-read their posts and make sure to change things like a pronoun (however, realistically most people don’t double check a forum post before they hit send) but it’s a lot to expect that people are in tight control of conversational language. It takes time. It’s like if a friend you’ve known for years by a nickname declares that they hate it - of course you stop consciously using it, but occasionally it’s going to slip out. I did also say that obviously some people do it pointedly and by all means call that out. But a policy of blanket anger and disappointment at “incorrect pronouns” is really not the way. |
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23-05-2021, 11:43 AM | #27 | |||
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Yeah I can’t see it being done out of anything other than intention by most people.
It’s Demi Lovato, it’s not like they’re usually a hot topic on the forum and people are “slipping up”. The edit function is there, I can’t see that it’s been used by those who have referred to Demi as she/her? |
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23-05-2021, 12:13 PM | #28 | |||
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23-05-2021, 01:34 PM | #29 | |||
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When women identify as transmen or as nonbinary, there seems to be a co-morbidity with a history of sexual abuse, which Demi Lovato has been subject to at least twice ... Some kind of coping mechanism, perhaps? Seems to mostly apply to females, as it doesn't seem to be the case with men who identit as transwomen or as nonbinary. |
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23-05-2021, 01:50 PM | #30 | |||
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23-05-2021, 03:29 PM | #31 | ||
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Yeah, ok. |
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23-05-2021, 05:45 PM | #32 | |||
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23-05-2021, 05:45 PM | #33 | |||
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23-05-2021, 06:07 PM | #34 | |||
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So do the DM have to now write "Demi Levato was in Paris Friday for a charity gig, them wore a lovely over the shoulder number from Prada and then they visited a lovely chique cafe on the banks of the Seine. Them will be in Paris for 2 nights and then them will be on the first flight back to LA"?
I cant see this catching on somehow |
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23-05-2021, 06:11 PM | #35 | ||
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It's the Daily Mail, so that level of illiteracy would be expected.
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23-05-2021, 06:12 PM | #36 | |||
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23-05-2021, 06:14 PM | #37 | ||
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23-05-2021, 06:52 PM | #38 | |||
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23-05-2021, 07:07 PM | #39 | ||
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That would be “Her wore a lovely over the shoulder number” so you just did a bad job of changing the pronouns LT. All of those would be “they” and it reads fine on that basis; albeit with the issue that it’s harder to distinguish singular from plural if a lot of people are using the singular “they”.
It isn’t incorrect English, however. |
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23-05-2021, 07:13 PM | #40 | |||
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It's perfectly typical grammar to use when you don't know the sex of who you are referring to, going back decades |
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23-05-2021, 07:54 PM | #41 | ||
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That's a 'you' issue. |
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