• lemonmelon@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    English is so inconsistent at this point.

    At this point? At this very point, specifically due to the historically valid usage of one gender neutral pronoun? Now is the time that it’s finally become an inconsistent language? Singular “they” is the thing that has pushed English over the edge from logical and sensical to arbitrary and confusing? Of all the foibles and quirks, this is the one that is simply unforgivable and must be changed?

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      15 days ago

      I didn’t say anything you said.

      I think a more sensible way to include LGBT+ group is to just make “she/her” obsolete. We are all “he/him”, and we are “they/them” when in a group. Way cleaner than this, excuse me, shit that we foreign English speakers have to adjust to for every few years.

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        15 days ago

        We agree. We make he/him obsolete and we’re all she/her, as there are more female people on the planet, so less people have to adapt