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Everyone Uses Singular ‘They,’ Whether They Realize It Or Not
Talk about belated recognition. At its meeting in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 7, the American Dialect Society voted to make the 600-year-old pronoun “they” their word of the year for 2015. Or more precisely, a particular use of that pronoun that grammarians call the singular “they.” This is the “they” that doesn’t care whether it’s referring to a male or female. As in “If I get a call, tell them they can call me back.” Or “Did someone leave their books here?”
As ordinary as it is, that use of “they” has always been a bit disreputable — you might say it, but you wouldn’t want to write it down. But now it’s a pronoun whose hour has come.
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Tonight, on Eye On Springfield: Just miles from your doorstep hundreds of men are given weapons and trained to kill. The government calls it ‘the Army’, but a more alarmist name would be The KILL-BOT Factory
i know that i tend to be hyperbolic but i don’t feel like i’m being too hyperbolic when i say that this is one of the best things i have ever seen
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Soooo you obviously need to watch all of these, but you HAVE to watch the third part and imagine having access to 9 hours of video footage of Taylor Swift and Imogen Heap creating “Clean” in the studio. (Taylor Swift is a huge gear nerd, which should be obvious to you and if it wasn’t, you really need to do some self-reflection.)
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I’m also moving home to Cape Breton, after my book tour, in December.
It’s a complicated set of feelings familiar to people from Atlantic Canada and rural areas in general. I never wanted to be one of the young ones who left forever. It’s a test, we’ll see. Never know unless you try.
Here is an interesting essay on PEI, Cape Breton and Newfoundland: “Folk Culture and the Myth of Return” (link)
oh my god just like last week my parents and uncle were telling me about how they eat potatoes and turnips raw