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On 2024-10-04, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 08:05:58 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> DFS wrote this post; take it under advisement:
>> 
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> "his" day.  Never ever call me a "they", bozo, or I'll ...
>> 
>> Looks like they is mad. :-D
>> 
>>> <snip>
>
> Apart from the cultural war I hate that use of 'they'. You're reading 
> along and until you get the context you're not sure if the author is 
> talking about multiple characters, a single character with multiple 
> personality disorder, or a single character of indeterminate sex.

It disgusts me as well. Especially when everyone knows that so-and-so is a 
man or a woman. Even on IMDB they no longer say a brother is a brother or a 
sister is a sister, they say "brother or sister." It's pure bullshit. 
Every damned time they screw around with the language, it gets less precise. 
And there's no excuse for the English language to not be precise.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien