Well said! My go-to example is ‘If someone calls and I’m not here, tell them they can leave a message’ because it covers both they and them in a singular usage.
Sidenote: I also hate the way that some people act like languages are static things, despite the known history of languages to shift and change over time. English is arguably a German creole; we don’t get to act all sanctimonious now.
jbrains@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
www.oed.com/…/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/?t…
PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Thanks!
I have always loved the OED. As a kid I used to sit in the library and just read it. It was always a dream of mine to buy my own copy and just have it the way people used to have encyclopedias.
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
knock knock Burglar!