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[rocknload]

AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.Summary: speak the way you learned in high school English, or else you sound like a "chimp." I couldn't even read it anymore when I got to the part about using the subjunctive mood correctly, because seriously? Who the hell even notices the subjunctive mood in English anymore?

These are the things that darken my day.

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[rocknload.livejournal.com]

People complaining about "they" drive me fucking batty. For one, it's completely understandable. For two, pretty much everyone finds its use acceptable. For three, it's basically impossible to coin function words and have native speakers actually use them -- it's a syntax thing, function words are pretty much fixed. Therefore ... what is the objection, here? The argument is that it's a third person pronoun and can't be used to refer to singular things, but ... it does? Perfectly well, even?

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The genderqueer movement can push for zie and hir all they like, and I respect the need for those, but I'm not sure they're ever going to catch on in a big way. And yes! Who died and let them dictate how a word can be used, anyway.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to tell anyone not to use them, and I do understand them when they're used and why people are using them -- but I never naturally understand them, I have to sort of think for a split second, no matter how often I see them. I'm not entirely sure I could catch them in speech either.

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

Zie always makes me thing of zwieback. I'm sorry, genderqueer movement.