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The author of the post invented a character born today and who will live for 1010 years. The author’s character was described as “he”. You seem to think that th
by iso947 7y ago
The author of the post invented a character born today and who will live for 1010 years. The author’s character was described as “he”. You seem to think that this is wrong despite it not being your character.
- eganist 7y ago101* and they're a hypothetical person who could exist, not a fictional character who could not exist. And really, this whole thing misses the point: if you're describing someone who could exist, you shouldn't put bounds on who the person could be.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- techbio 7y agoOr how many of them there may be? Potentially more than zero, certainly fewer than the (large) number of births today, and the argument is that one pronoun is (in)accurate for an individual...what we need here is “they” because there will as likely be a group of “them” as one alone.
- techbio 7y agoI’ll assume the downvote is due to an inability to analyze basic grammar.