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@DreamingInCode ("selectively adjacent symbols") wrote:

The casual impertinence of self-righteously naive prescriptivism – a scourge immemorial

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@JoyceCarolOates ("Joyce Carol Oates") wrote:

"they" will not become a part of general usage, not for political reasons but because there would be no pronoun to distinguish between a singular subject ("they") & a plural subject ("they"). language seeks to communicate w/ clarity, not to obfuscate; that is its purpose. https://twitter.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1445580475771224075