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This, and singular they[1], make me very happy indeed - all the people who "correct" my grammar are actually, themselves, wrong (or, at most, people waving an o
by tehwalrus 13y ago
This, and singular they[1], make me very happy indeed - all the people who "correct" my grammar are actually, themselves, wrong (or, at most, people waving an opinion in my face as if it were a fact.) <3
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
- commandar 13y agoThere are a lot of prescriptive "rules" in English that aren't really rules. Ending sentences in prepositions is probably my favorite.
- evanb 13y ago"This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put." --Churchill (maybe) Some discussion: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001702.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001702.h...