Good morning Bitcoinland.
I see we tested $10k again with a triple bottom... currently $10300USD/$13455CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
Hopefully that's the end of 4 digits.
Go Bitcoin go.
(And yes "they" is grammatically correct for referring to the singular, or so I've heard.)
No, it is not correct—outside the fantasies of the Newspeak Dictionary, Tenth Edition (or is it the Eleventh now?).
I don’t want to feed more off-topic drama, much less engage in a “pronouns” flamewar at this particular moment. This is just one of those issues where bad information stands, unless somebody contradicts it. I will do so, for the promotion of singular “they” is a part of the linguistic degeneration that has rendered most of the Internet not only illiterate, but illegible; and it
is politically motivated, however much you may disclaim “political correctness”.
I don’t want to come off as lecturing you about language usage. I just ask you to please not lecture others on it—especially not to declare peremptorily correct a contentious usage that is widely abhorred.
I was actually suspecting this sway character could be a she. (or not)
Perhaps. What of it?
I have engaged in similar speculations about others, but never corrected the pronouns applied to people who choose to keep this one binary bit of identifying information private. On a forum that respects privacy and anonymity, I suggest that it is generally appropriate to avoid prying, unless you are friendly enough with a person to ask in private. Simply pick whatever pronoun seems best to fit the available evidence, and stick to it unless contrary evidence arises.
(I
have corrected others who decided to refer to me as a hipster default “she”.)
back in the day, as in way back in the day, when i learned english (in two different english speaking countries)
Back in the day—when people spoke
English, in contradistinction to the bastardized postmodern cant used by degenerate anthropoids with pickled brains.
i thought i learned that when a singular person of unknown sex was referred to "he" could refer to either sex.
Yes.
Edit/P.S.: “Back in the day”, women customarily signed their letters with a parenthesized
title so that others would know whether to apply “Mrs.” or “Miss”.
E.g., “Sincerely, Alice Smith (Mrs.)”. Just sayin’...
Thank you for this breath of fresh air. My mother was a high school English teacher and my father was a journalist/writer so I appreciate good grammar, composition, and spelling.
Sure I may resort to colloquialism and cliches (and dangling participles is something I'm guilty of! Sentence fragments too.) but when bad grammar crosses the line and becomes illogical, I see red.
I'm sorry, but something as illogical as using a plural pronoun in for a singular person is totally unacceptable. It not only is inaccurate but if the sex of the person in question is known, it is somewhat deceitful to hide it. There's a reason for pronoun gender. It more accurately describes the person it represents.
Whenever possible a specific person should be referred to as "he" or "she". If it's a non-specific person, one should use "he or she" "he/she", "(s)he" or simply "he" if one is too lazy to spell the longer versions. One could even use "it" in certain cases (oh boo hoo hoo that's so dehumanizing!) . "They" is totally unacceptable.
I'm sorry if being gender-specific offends some whiny little SJWs but accuracy is more important.
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