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Addressing a vampire as "they" may be in fact dangerous, for most of the vampires are from the pre-internet age.
by akomtu 3y ago
Addressing a vampire as "they" may be in fact dangerous, for most of the vampires are from the pre-internet age.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoWhat are you trying to say here? Can you elaborate? As far as I'm aware English predates the internet.
- alexeldeib 3y agoI think it’s alluding to “they” being non binary/woke to refer to a single person
- r2_pilot 3y agoUsing "they" to denote genderless singular has been common in English for more than a century.
- alexeldeib 3y agoI'm not agreeing or disagreeing, just answering the question as I saw it :)
- chc 3y agoThe singular "they" is in fact about as old as the singular "you" (which was also strictly a plural before then).
- cududa 3y agoI just want you to know, you’re not getting downvoted by the “woke mob”, you’re getting down voted for making an idiotic joke and insisting on making some random conversation on history about “woke politics”.
- eigenket 3y agoSome vampires may even be as old as the 14th century, which is when people first started using "they" as a gender neutral third person pronoun. Some 18th century people didn't like it because they thought it was too colloquial but its been a part of English for a fairly long time, roughly 10 times as long as the "Internet age".