rocknload: (MATRIX ☌ neo says fuck this bullshit)
Brittany ([personal profile] rocknload) wrote2009-09-10 08:22 am
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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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[identity profile] immelmanturn.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never heard that ever. I have a professor who uses "she" and "he" interchangeably when making a hypothetical case or point, but apart from that it seems to be "he"s all the way down. I guess people might have started using it in an attempt to equalize the common practice of assuming all unknown persons are "he," but other than that, I got nothin'.
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[identity profile] rocknload.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm reading a book right now where the author uses "she" as often as he uses "he" as a generic pronoun. Whenever he uses "he" it's basically invisible to me, whenever he uses "she" I notice. THEREFORE I deduce this is not common usage, no.
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