Comment on The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing

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• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m really curious as to how singular they started being taught as incorrect. I really don’t think it was originally intended to be transphobic.

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  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I imagine it was fashionable at some point in the last six centuries.

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    • klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It was around the 1700s, about when “you” became a singular pronoun

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      • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “you” isn’t a pronoun at all.

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