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It was clearly tongue-in-cheek...
by 70rd 6y ago
It was clearly tongue-in-cheek...
- aerovistae 6y agoSorry, but it clearly wasn't: he goes on to say that his kid had to steal the books back from the author's bedroom. Not sure why the kid would need to do that if the author hadn't quite seriously taken the books away.
- Jtsummers 6y ago"she", not "he". The author is a woman.
- craftinator 6y agoAh, the pedantic bait and switch, one of my favorite rhetorical foibles!
- Jtsummers 6y agoIt's not a bait and switch, it was my only comment here. But it's reasonable to expect people to get the genders correct for the subjects of their sentences. Use a neutral term like "they" if you don't know and don't want to or can't find out.
- qznc 6y agoThe great thing about threaded discussions is that you can ignore the branches you don't consider worth a discussion.
- selcuka 6y agoTrue, but the rest of the story says that it was a mistake: > I’ve read my fair share of parenting books, but I’d put “Calvin & Hobbes” at the top of the list of required reading. It reminds me to change my point of view.