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TIL Usenet was in use in the 14th century. What newsgroups did Chaucer post to?
by M2Ys4U 5y ago
TIL Usenet was in use in the 14th century.
What newsgroups did Chaucer post to?
- herewulf 5y agoAre you trying to claim that Chaucer used "they" as a gender neutral singular pronoun? That is extremely dubious considering that half of the Middle English speakers were still using <he> as the third person plural pronoun[1] (descended from Old English <híe> and unrelated to the third person masculine pronoun). Chaucer himself alternates between native Old English and Anglo-Norse forms depending on grammatical case and/or whim[2]. [1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/he#Middle_English-they https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/he#Middle_English-they [2]: https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/pronunciation/gr.html#personal%20pronouns https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/pronunciation/gr.html...