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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Can we also address that they wrote "is" instead of "are", implying they originally wrote "it" and then erased it?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Are you not supposed to use "is" with "he/she/they"?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I was high af when I wrote that, I honestly have no clue how I came to that conclusion lol

Edit: actually I think what I was thinking was it doesn't work with "they"

[–] Makeshift 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It doesn’t but at this point it should.

It’s weird and confusing to pluralize a sentence when you’re still talking about a singular individual. We should normalize “Why is they so cute?” If we refuse to make a new non-demeaning word for a singular.

I say non-demeaning because “Why is it so cute?” Is correct, but calling a living being “it” is objectifying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I used to think that too, until I realized that verb conjugation in English is not decided by whether the subject is singular or plural. "You" can be both singular or plural, yet we always say "you are" and never "you is". Same for the pronoun "they". It's always "they are".

Unless you is also willing to normalize "you is", I think "they are" is good enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I is willing to allow it

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