On Thursday 17 May 2012 20:52:36 Kelly Clowers wrote: > Unlike those (and similar invented things), "they" doesn't sound > horrible and ridiculously artificial.
To many of us, it does. It grates badly. I have no problem at all with (s)he, I also contend that "it's she" is perfectly acceptable and can be validly parsed grammatically. The "it's" is in common usage, for example as in "it's a lovely day". "It's raining", or e.g. when announcing a birth "it's a girl". But I have to admit that the 2nd person plural has finally totally vanquished - the last living use of the second person singular that I know of had died out by the end of the 20th century. And no doubt the third person singular will eventually go the same way. Sad. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
