I posted a while ago about a friend finally starting to see what i have been telling him all along, update
🫡 THE GREAT AWAKENING 🔆
He is now fully on his way to waking up. I got him to watch europa, mind you this guy knows the history that has been taught to us in indoctrination camps very well, so when he seen the alternative narrative, it blew his mind.
He realized how much more sense it made and immediatley was able to make the connection to what we are seeing now.
He just said he is going to watch a netflix hitler doc to see how much shit they lie about. I informed him things are going to get difficult to watch as you can pick our the fallke and gay shit easily.
This is truly amazing seeing him wake up, and it couldnt habe happened to a better friend!
NCSWIC
I don’t care about historic misuse or about dweebs at oxford. The lack of clarity causes confusion. special1ntere5t’s usage above seems to be a habit formed in fear of an ASD tantrum if the child’s delusions are not indulged. special1ntere5t is complaining about her child’s gender confusion and you’re encouraging her to use confusing genderless words.
If anyone is really confused when someone says "Does everyone have their pen," or "Regardless of who was the first person to say a mask will prevent viral transmission, they're wrong", that's a shame.
The fact remains that 'singular they' has been accepted usage in English for over half a millennium, and it isn't going anywhere.
Better examples of confusing usage are when an individual and a group are both being discussed and plural pronouns are used for the individual. You probably knew this but instead chose weak examples anyway.
We’ll see. If we can kick the satanic global commies out of the deep state, cleaning up the language might be easy in comparison.
What is your objective? I somewhat doubt that you’re a tranny sympathizer or a feminist. Do you find acceptance of lazy and imprecise pronoun usage to be personally expedient? Even if plural pronouns have been misused for centuries, you have to admit that the practice has rapidly accelerated and diversified in the last decade or so in conjunction with the globalists’ push for deviance acceptance. It has become a facet of the culture war, and obviously female or obviously male individuals who choose plural pronouns for themselves may claim it’s to show solidarity with the deviants, but really it’s to show disdain for normal people and to spite Christian culture. So why are you putting yourself on the wrong side of the culture war and trying to hide behind arguments of historical linguistics? Is it because you cynically see the other side as winning? (eg “it isn’t going anywhere”). Sadly, this traitorous strategy of sucking up to the perceived winners has become common in various types of battles. Maybe you just need more faith that wholesomeness and truth will win.
special1ntere5t’s repeated misuse of plural pronouns were about her gender-confused child, and not about a hypothetical or unknown third person singular like in your weak examples. Why do you use weak examples to try to encourage the indulgence of gender confusion? specialinterest’s plural pronoun misuse isn’t as confusing to us readers as it is to her child. She should refer to her child by the proper sex and manifest the child’s acceptance of it into reality. Re-read her comment if you must. The “they”s and “them”s are cringey and counterproductive:
Prescriptive grammarians have convinced you that 'they' and 'them' are only plural forms. You have thus determined unilaterally that 600 years of usage in English as singular pronouns constitutes misuse of plural pronouns. That ends any rational discussion for you.
(Which is unfortunate, because we would agree on "transgenderism" being nothing but a sanitized fake term for Gender Identity Disorder, a mental illness characterized by sexual delusions and often uncontrolled violent rage. When it's used to coddle that illness, IMO that's misuse of singular they.)
If special1intere5t is misusing “they” at home, she’s contributing to her child’s confusion, but come to think of it, the first “They” in her comment was confusing to readers:
The most recent people mentioned before the pronoun “They” were the “whole trans cult”, so the interpretation is that ‘The whole trans cult are starting to back away’. Of course with continued reading and gathering more context, readers can figure that special1ntere5t meant, ‘The child is starting to back away’, but why not save the bother of gathering more context with which to decipher and just write ‘the child’, ‘he’, or ‘she’? Also, notice that it’s not just the pronoun that is imprecise. The verb is wrong, too; using “are” where it should be ‘is’. If “singular they” really is acceptable, then the phrase should be ‘They is starting to back away’. It would be consistent with the previous uses of “is” in the quote.
Yes, I suppose I was informed by a chart of first, second, and third person singular and plural pronouns and possessives. I appreciated the clarity, and I hope my previous section helps you see its usefulness also. I was further convinced when learning a foreign language and seeing its version of the third person plural pronoun translated into English as “they”. Just because “they” has been misused in English for a long time doesn’t mean it’s not misuse.
Well, that’s how special1intere5t was using it. I called it out, and then you came at me with your “fun facts”, feigning ignorance of how “singular they” has become a woke shibboleth. So again, what is your objective?