Re: OT: language (was: Re: something about rm)
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
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