Meh, the fact that it was a conscious choice is what was distracting. That said, English doesn't really have a neutral gendered pronoun. Other languages do.
@@ableasdale2000 I was taught in 3rd grade that the default, if no sex is specified, is to the male pronoun The use of the female pronoun as default has beendon in the media for decades and we know with which hand THEY write and eat: Tres gauche In informal speech the third person plural pronoun is used for common gneder
@@SpacePatrollerLaser That's how we used to do things, but you know how keen the Marxists are at language games. Still, I don't mind throwing the odd her into the mix. The presenters did end up using both pronouns.
@@ableasdale2000 Yes, I know exactly now the left is about language So when I hear the speech patterns of the enemy in my own house, and knowing how the Left is, and how language sets the terms of discussion and advantages one side or the other, my alarms go off, especially since I have not heard Brooks gove an uthernmitigated, r the foursquard, balls-to-the-wall othercondemnation of Red China and ARI is using zoom which is well-known to be linked to Red China. I wonder what Rand would think. As with most persons, I use "them" as the common gender pronoun. But if you are speaking formal English, play by the rules That is the Objectivist way and Rand used the masculine pronoun
My 8-year-old niece reads when she's walking down the sidewalk.
Because script is awesome! and if everyone gets that down early, print is nothing to pick up.
How come your default pronoun is the feminine? For years the defualt pronoun has been the masuculine Am I missing an influence?
Cl Lyman I found it mildly distracting.
Meh, the fact that it was a conscious choice is what was distracting. That said, English doesn't really have a neutral gendered pronoun. Other languages do.
@@ableasdale2000 I was taught in 3rd grade that the default, if no sex is specified, is to the male pronoun The use of the female pronoun as default has beendon in the media for decades and we know with which hand THEY write and eat: Tres gauche
In informal speech the third person plural pronoun is used for common gneder
@@SpacePatrollerLaser That's how we used to do things, but you know how keen the Marxists are at language games. Still, I don't mind throwing the odd her into the mix. The presenters did end up using both pronouns.
@@ableasdale2000 Yes, I know exactly now the left is about language So when I hear the speech patterns of the enemy in my own house, and knowing how the Left is, and how language sets the terms of discussion and advantages one side or the other, my alarms go off, especially since I have not heard Brooks gove an uthernmitigated, r the foursquard, balls-to-the-wall othercondemnation of Red China and ARI is using zoom which is well-known to be linked to Red China. I wonder what Rand would think. As with most persons, I use "them" as the common gender pronoun. But if you are speaking formal English, play by the rules That is the Objectivist way and Rand used the masculine pronoun