Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Bernie stumbles [View all]NJCher
(35,654 posts)It's been this way for some time--at least for those of us who care about gender neutral language.
Linguist Dennis Baron at the University of Illinois points to the evolution of the word you as another example: Purists object that a plural pronoun like they cant be used as a singular. But they are wrong: You began its life as plural (the singular second person was thou). Then you began serving as singular as well. .?.?. Today we use you to refer to one person Are you talkin to me? without worrying about number. And for most people, they works the same way.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/gender-neutral-pronouns-when-they-doesnt-identify-as-either-male-or-female/2014/10/27/41965f5e-5ac0-11e4-b812-38518ae74c67_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2cad69c99b81
Poor thing.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided