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If you leave the job, you should also leave the Bay Area and go somewhere you can afford to live while trying out your own ideas, as you'll give yourself 2x - 3
by meritt 12y ago
If you leave the job, you should also leave the Bay Area and go somewhere you can afford to live while trying out your own ideas, as you'll give yourself 2x - 3x the runway.
- byoung2 12y agoyou should also leave the Bay Area Did he say he was in the Bay Area?
- mynewtossaway 12y agoDid I say I was male?
- byoung2 12y agoThe part of the question that interested me was whether you were in the Bay Area or not. Striking out on your own in Montana or Pakistan might be different from doing so in SF.
- mynewtossaway 12y agoit was a joke. i am in a place where cost of living is high. may or may not be sf
- bobbykjack 12y agoDid he say he was a 'he'?
- WoodenChair 12y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender#English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender#English "Problems arise when selecting a personal pronoun to refer to someone of unspecified or unknown gender (see also Mixed and indeterminate gender above). Traditionally the masculine has been used as the "default" gender in English." It's just proper English by traditional standards to use he when you don't know the gender of the person. People take it as some kind of an affront, but those of us with English training were just taught that way in college. Source: Minor in English.
- bobbykjack 12y agoAnd many of us object to that male default. About the first thing I learnt at any serious level of linguistics teaching is that language does not stand still, it evolves. It would be trivial to say "did they say they were in the bay area" in this instance.
- byoung2 12y agoUsing "they" would be grammatically incorrect since the subject is singular. To be politically and grammatically correct I could have gone with "he/she" or "the OP" but statistics and history are on my side with "he" knowing the demographics on this site.
- radq 12y ago"They" can be and is commonly used as a gender-neutral singular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
- byoung2 12y agoIn the acceptability section of that Wikipedia article, most style guides reject singular they usage.
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- jagawhowho 12y agoI'm absolutley outraged, offended, and flabbergasted of the use of "he".