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Title: Air Force Allows Use Of Pronouns In Signatures
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URL Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/political ... allows-use-pronouns-signatures
Published: Dec 22, 2021
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2021-12-22 19:41:42 by Horse
Keywords: None
Views: 411
Comments: 7

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In Hollywood people give their personal pronouns when they introduce themselves. No he and she for them. I live in Tennessee. My personal pronouns are Leave me alone and Get the hell out of here.

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#1. To: Horse (#0)

LOL!

Complicate, complicate, burden and encumber us to death -- Certain People's master plan.

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2021-12-22   19:44:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: NeoconsNailed, Horse, Lod (#1)

I'm sticklish on correct pronoun usage. I hate hate hate to see or hear a plural pronoun -- them, they, their, themselves -- used for a single person, e.g., "The other driver wouldn't give their name." People who misuse pronouns thus debauch and uglify the language. Sure, they have a right to do so, just as a person has a right to keep garbage in his yard, or to tramp stamp her body from wrist to ear and put a bone or a bolt through her nose. But it's ugly, and the rest of us have to look at it.

I like to died (look it up!) the first time I read Philippians 2:3 in the KJV (1611): "...let each esteem other better than themselves." Ugh!

They should have stuck with Tyndale (1534) on that one: "...every man esteem other better than himself."

When I was a corporate slave, I always addressed a woman I didn't know as "Mrs. So-and-so". I figured I would be right about 85% of the time. I was almost certainly wrong sometimes, but interestingly, no woman ever corrected me. But that was 15 years ago; I'd probably need to wear some good noise-cancelling earmuffs if I did that today.

StraitGate  posted on  2021-12-22   22:40:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: StraitGate (#2)

What do you know, it's actually in there

www.biblegateway.com/pass...ilippian s%202&version=KJV

....but honestly I think that's the way language has uncontroversially been since then except in rigid or uptight contexts like teachers instructing pupils how to fill in SATs. Feel certain 'than himself', while textbook English, just isn't the default in my spoken and written worlds -- sort of like saying"th'm" for 'them' as in "I put "th'm" on the table. That I cannot abide even tho some of my favorite ppl talk that way -- just a few that (like me) ain't originally from aroundjear.

Southerners used to pronounce 'Mrs.' "miz", at least in my native Va. Ripely ironic that 'Ms' is the gender'ically correct thing now (if it still is). Before it became common and axe-grinding I used to enjoy using it just to be different ;-)

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2021-12-23   0:03:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#4. To: NeoconsNailed (#3)

One of my old bosses once said "If you have any questions, see John (the other boss) or myself after the meeting." I told him "Dave, I can see you, and I can see myself, but only you can see yourself -- that's how reflexive pronouns work." And there were a few other teaching moments like that over the years.

One happy day in a meeting some hapless new hire started to admonish me for saying "me and Bob" as in "That new equipment was for me and Bob."

The boss shut him down hard: "Don't EVER try to correct StraitGate's English."

Miz: A preacher friend of mine from North Carolina calls women Miz Julie and Miz Lisa and such -- Miz in front of the girl's first name. I can't say Miz, but I might say Miss Julie or Miss Lisa sometimes.

Our school had a teacher c. 1971 who was a women's libber (and an old hag), and she wanted (and told) everybody to call her Miz Ade. First time I had ever heard the term. Thankfully I wasn't in her class.

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