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See my comment down-thread about Jane Austen and bloodletting. (I'll stop now; we've hit diminishing returns.)
by dctoedt 12y ago
See my comment down-thread about Jane Austen and bloodletting.
(I'll stop now; we've hit diminishing returns.)
- idlewords 12y agoI'm going to use that first sentence as my stock rebuttal to everything from now on.
- tptacek 12y agoJust to be clear, it's Language Log that's Omar in this silly little metaphor. I was making an appeal to authority, but of a different sort than "yet another famous author using singular they". :)