Re: Epicene pronoun in english?
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 8, 2004, 4:53 |
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On Sunday, March 7, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Joe wrote:
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> No, he meant that AmE doesn't have singular 'they' in standard speech.
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That's not an accurate description of reality at all... I'm a native
speaker of a dialect of American English, and i use singular 'they' all
the time! And so do all my native American English speaker friends.
In fact, i probably overuse it when compared to other singular-'they'
users.
-Stephen (Steg)
"but Haman was executed on trumped-up charges!"