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minus-squarediprount_tomato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down13·8 months agoAren’t those cases referring to individuals you don’t know the gender of? Like “I saw a silhouette moving, they were going somewhere”
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·8 months ago 'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, since nature makes them partial, should o’erhear the speech. Hamlet, Act III, Scene 3 There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me As if I were their well-acquainted friend The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, Scene 3 Sounds like the gender was known.
minus-squarediprount_tomato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down14·8 months agoFirst one is plural, second one is refering to what I said in my previous comment
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·8 months agoNo, both are the use of the singular ‘they’ with gender. Read them more closely.
minus-squarediprount_tomato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down5·8 months agoFirst one talks about mothers in general, second one refers to being a friend of someone
minus-squareChozo@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoYes, which is literally why many nonbinary people prefer “they” for their third person pronouns.
minus-squarediprount_tomato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down8·8 months agoIt’s still not used for the same grammatical reasons
Aren’t those cases referring to individuals you don’t know the gender of? Like “I saw a silhouette moving, they were going somewhere”
Sounds like the gender was known.
First one is plural, second one is refering to what I said in my previous comment
No, both are the use of the singular ‘they’ with gender. Read them more closely.
First one talks about mothers in general, second one refers to being a friend of someone
Yes, which is literally why many nonbinary people prefer “they” for their third person pronouns.
It’s still not used for the same grammatical reasons