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Sounds very positive, awesome they want to help out with climate change.
by bamboozled 4y ago
Sounds very positive, awesome they want to help out with climate change.
- bergenty 4y agoHe, it’s not a group of people.
- lioeters 4y agoIt's been acceptable since the 14th century to use "they" as a gender-neutral third-person pronoun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
- edflsafoiewq 4y ago> It typically occurs with an unspecified antecedent
- everybodyknows 4y agoHas Bezos specified "they" as preferred pronoun?
- veidr 4y agoSorry, we're changing that. The only question is whether we (proponents of gender-nonspecific and plural-nonspecific "they") will beat them (people who misspell "lose" as "loose" — remember, it only takes a simple majority[1] (and a bit of time for people to get used to it) to change the language(!)). [1]: As we all are undoubtedly aware, the spelling "cancelled" was canceled via this mechanism, one or two decades ago.
- 1auralynn 4y agoThe commenter is talking about Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend, read the article.
- bamboozled 4y agoHis new partner seems to be an influence.
- pencilguin 4y agoWhat the headline giveth, the fine print taketh away. Not really positive at all, just a PR stunt to dress up a tax dodge.
- mint2 4y agoThe best way to do that would be to create a climate version of Fox News. Stopping the most powerful country from seesawing between being controlled by full blown climate deniers to just road blocked by them is the single most impactful thing below could do, but he won’t because it may increase his taxes.