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Posted: 7/4/2013 4:25:29 PM EDT

I am heartily sick of the practice of using plural pronouns as though they were singular, a measure undertaken in service to plainly stupid concern over gender exclusion. Examples of the usage: "If a student raises their hand, call on them by name." "On accessing a secure area, an employee must enter their six-digit Employee ID Number into the keypad." "If a customer has a complaint, ask them if they would like to see a manager."

A pox on the jackasses who initiated and the sheep who perpetuate this horse shit.

Posted: 7/4/2013 4:27:04 PM EDT

[#1]

8:30 on 4th of July before a long weekend and this is consuming your thoughts? Go pack you range bag or put your fishing rod in the car for tomorrow.

edit not that you are wrong. You know they call actresses "actors" now? Reeeedickyouless

Posted: 7/4/2013 4:28:44 PM EDT

[#2]

Always wondered that.

Looks like "they" or "he or she" is correct.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/he-or-she-versus-they

Posted: 7/4/2013 4:31:13 PM EDT

[#3]

Grammar isn't for everyone.

Posted: 7/4/2013 4:32:14 PM EDT

[#4]

First-World Problems.....and this one didnt even make the list.

Go have a beer, relax, be grateful to God for what you have, bought and paid for by so many.

Posted: 7/4/2013 4:32:22 PM EDT

[#5]

Aint nobody got time fo them!

Posted: 7/4/2013 4:32:55 PM EDT

[#6]

Posted: 7/4/2013 4:35:14 PM EDT

[#7]

Grab a few of these ones.

He went there for sure.

Posted: 7/4/2013 4:35:20 PM EDT

[#8]

I work in an industry where written procedures are the coin of the realm.

I'm sorry to say that I have caught myself writing in the neuter tense, but that's life. I notice it, but it doesn't bother me too much...

Posted: 7/4/2013 4:36:26 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
8:30 on 4th of July before a long weekend and this is consuming your thoughts? Go pack you range bag or put your fishing rod in the car for tomorrow.

edit not that you are wrong. You know they call actresses "actors" now? Reeeedickyouless

"They" might, but I don't.

- A Curdmudgeon.

Posted: 7/4/2013 4:42:13 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Aint nobody got time fo them!

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Posted: 7/4/2013 4:42:24 PM EDT

[#11]

Posted: 7/4/2013 4:53:33 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
I am heartily sick of the practice of using plural pronouns as though they were singular, a measure undertaken in service to plainly stupid concern over gender exclusion. Examples of the usage: "If a student raises their hand, call on them by name." "On accessing a secure area, an employee must enter their six-digit Employee ID Number into the keypad." "If a customer has a complaint, ask them if they would like to see a manager."

A pox on the jackasses who initiated and the sheep who perpetuate this horse shit.

Perhaps you might explain this?

a measure undertaken in service to plainly stupid concern over gender exclusion

BTW, I write a lot; user documentation, tech manuals, as well as a huge amount of international correspondence. I take advantage of anything I can to not have to battle the him/her, he/she conundrum.

Posted: 7/4/2013 5:09:47 PM EDT

[#13]

When (grammatical) gender is indeterminate, the masculine pronoun is used, but this wads up the panties of the feminazis, so we don't dare do that.

Better to speak incorrectly than to offend the ignorant. (example, niggardly)

I think this goes all the way back to Anglo-Saxon.

Posted: 7/4/2013 5:12:45 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
When (grammatical) gender is indeterminate, the masculine pronoun is used, but this wads up the panties of the feminazis, so we don't dare do that.

Better to speak incorrectly than to offend the ignorant. (example, niggardly)

I think this goes all the way back to Anglo-Saxon.

Well, have site staff change your username to "Them" to avoid offending delicate sensitivities.

Posted: 7/4/2013 5:24:28 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I am heartily sick of the practice of using plural pronouns as though they were singular, a measure undertaken in service to plainly stupid concern over gender exclusion. Examples of the usage: "If a student raises their hand, call on them by name." "On accessing a secure area, an employee must enter their six-digit Employee ID Number into the keypad." "If a customer has a complaint, ask them if they would like to see a manager."

A pox on the jackasses who initiated and the sheep who perpetuate this horse shit.

Perhaps you might explain this?

a measure [an action] undertaken [initiated or pursued] in service to [in furtherance or support of] plainly stupid [manifestly ill-informed, ill-considered, or ill-advised; obviously wrong] concern over [worry about; interest in] gender [in this sense, sex] exclusion [negative discrimination; pretermission]

BTW, I write a lot; user documentation, tech manuals, as well as a huge amount of international correspondence. I take advantage of anything I can to not have to battle the him/her, he/she conundrum.

There's no conundrum (apart from one I hope I have solved for you). Until the very recent nonsense of using plural pronouns as universals, masculine pronouns were used throughout the history of the language for that purpose. Pronoun-referent agreement is now to be sacrificed to assuage a purely imaginary injury. While there is at root no purely rational basis for any convention of language, neither is there any rational basis for overturning centuries or millennia of settled usage in favor of the social militancy of the day.

Posted: 7/4/2013 5:26:54 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:
When (grammatical) gender is indeterminate, the masculine pronoun is used, but this wads up the panties of the feminazis, so we don't dare do that.

Better to speak incorrectly than to offend the ignorant. (example, niggardly)

I think this goes all the way back to Anglo-Saxon.

Well, have site staff change your username to "Them" to avoid offending delicate sensitivities.

I never thought of that.

Posted: 7/4/2013 5:40:45 PM EDT

[#17]

I have been out of the city to long to even begin to decipher this post.

Posted: 7/4/2013 5:42:52 PM EDT

[#18]

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8:30 on 4th of July before a long weekend and this is consuming your thoughts? Go pack you range bag or put your fishing rod in the car for tomorrow.

edit not that you are wrong. You know they call actresses "actors" now? Reeeedickyouless

Long weekend?

I have to work tomorrow.

OP....a man's gotta know his limitations. Go shoot something this weekend.

Posted: 7/4/2013 5:46:31 PM EDT

[#19]

It annoys me as well. But consider: we were the only two arfcommers to fly across the country to celebrate the birthday of the world's stuffiest lexicographer.

Posted: 7/4/2013 5:48:35 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

Quoted:

8:30 on 4th of July before a long weekend and this is consuming your thoughts? Go pack you range bag or put your fishing rod in the car for tomorrow.

edit not that you are wrong. You know they call actresses "actors" now? Reeeedickyouless

Long weekend?

I have to work tomorrow.

OP....a man's gotta know his limitations. Go shoot something this weekend.

OP ain't working tomorrow

Posted: 7/4/2013 6:00:00 PM EDT

[#21]

Here's what a Linguists Prof has to say:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTYZm0gyKqI

All of her "The Word on Language and Grammar" clips are interesting and informative. (She was my son's Prof for a couple classes at Michigan).

Posted: 7/4/2013 6:02:22 PM EDT

[#22]

They day I saw a trained monkey wearing short pants and a tiny top hat I knew the world as we know it was doomed.

Posted: 7/4/2013 6:13:37 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Grammar isn't for everyone.

I hate typing words in an attempt to please others.

Posted: 7/4/2013 6:20:20 PM EDT

[#24]

Tlansrated into Chinese:

I am healtiry sick of the plactice of using prular plonouns as though they wele singural, a measule undeltaken in selvice to prainry stupid conceln ovel gendel excrusion. Exampres of the usage: "If a student laises theil hand, carr on them by name." "On accessing a secule alea, an emproyee must entel theil six-digit Emproyee ID Numbel into the keypad." "If a customel has a compraint, ask them if they wourd rike to see a managel."

A pox on the jackasses who initiated and the sheep who pelpetuate this holse shit.

Prease lead out roud.

Posted: 7/4/2013 6:51:03 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

I am heartily sick of the practice of using plural pronouns as though they were singular, a measure undertaken in service to plainly stupid concern over gender exclusion. Examples of the usage: "If a student raises their hand, call on them by name." "On accessing a secure area, an employee must enter their six-digit Employee ID Number into the keypad." "If a customer has a complaint, ask them if they would like to see a manager."

A pox on the jackasses who initiated and the sheep who perpetuate this horse shit.

Concur.

Posted: 7/4/2013 6:53:16 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Grammar isn't for everyone.

I know right!

Posted: 7/4/2013 6:57:14 PM EDT

[#27]

I still say Stewardess is gender neutral enough.

Posted: 7/4/2013 7:04:04 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
I still say Stewardess is gender neutral enough.

Sometimes the spelling needs tweaking,,,stewardeth

Posted: 7/4/2013 7:06:30 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:

Aint nobody got time fo them!

Dem.

It's dem, not them.

Posted: 7/4/2013 7:19:01 PM EDT

[#30]

Posted: 7/4/2013 7:32:02 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Always wondered that.

Looks like "they" or "he or she" is correct.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/he-or-she-versus-they

We only ever used he or she in those cases. That is what I was taught.

Posted: 7/4/2013 7:33:37 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:

Quoted:
8:30 on 4th of July before a long weekend and this is consuming your thoughts? Go pack you range bag or put your fishing rod in the car for tomorrow.

edit not that you are wrong. You know they call actresses "actors" now? Reeeedickyouless

Long weekend?

I have to work tomorrow.

OP....a man's gotta know his limitations. Go shoot something this weekend.

OP ain't working tomorrow

Lazy lawyers!!!!!