Akira-kun Kamo Shirenaishi Akira-chan Kamo Shirenai - Vol. 1 Ch. 2 - step2

[MangaDex]

 

[havelmom]

they is out of place for a neutral pronoun since it's Plural only

 

[notcishet]

they is out of place for a neutral pronoun since it's Plural only

You're wrong, an example:-

"When is Steve going to be here?"
"They said they'll be here later."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

 

[havelmom]

You're wrong, an example:-

"When is Steve going to be here?"
"They said they'll be here later."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

it's 100% syntactically wrong, meaning the language itself is braking its own rules (syntax)
I am correct.

 

[tairar]

it's 100% syntactically wrong, meaning the language itself is braking its own rules (syntax)
I am correct.

so you didn’t read the link huh?

 

[Twinmyuki]

it's 100% syntactically wrong, meaning the language itself is braking its own rules (syntax)
I am correct.

Incorrect people just like to push this misinformation. Singular they has been appropriate to use since the 1300s. How would you refer to a singular person you dont know the gender of in the third person

 

[havelmom]

so you didn’t read the link huh?

Incorrect people just like to push this misinformation. Singular they has been appropriate to use since the 1300s. How would you refer to a singular person you dont know the gender of in the third person

all languages are formed through generative grammar, which is a universal form of syntax
the singular 'They' is wrong by means of formal syntax and generative grammar
by that optic, the language itself is wrong, where it must have followed the correct logical syntax to prevent paradoxical semantics

I am not just correct
English itself is wrong


you two learned something today

 

[tairar]

all languages are formed through generative grammar, which is a universal form of syntax
the singular 'They' is wrong by means of formal syntax and generative grammar
by that optic, the language itself is wrong, where it must have followed the correct logical syntax to prevent paradoxical semantics

I am not just correct
English itself is wrong


you two learned something today

Yeah I learned that people who throw out meaningless jumbles of Chomskyan jargon on a manga site come off arrogant as fuuuuck

 

[dogmeister238]

they is out of place for a neutral pronoun since it's Plural only

English grammatical conventions have been updated (for a while now) to primarily use “they” and plural forms for gender-neutral sentences, even regarding singular contexts.

Side note, I don’t get why people are sticklers about using only gendered singular pronouns for gender-neutral contexts. People say it’s because it’s a new, foreign, and specific special case to accommodate NB and trans people, but that’s not true; “they” as a gender-neutral pronoun has been accepted convention since before trans people were a mainstream thing. It wasn’t the default convention, but it was accepted convention even in academic writing. That’s part of the reason why it was adopted and adapted for trans people; they wanted to use familiar convention.

Not to mention, there are way more ambiguous and annoying special case conventions in the English language.