Posted on 01/04/2020 7:05:13 PM PST by Olog-hai
The American Dialect Society has named they as the word of the decade, recognizing the plural pronouns growing use as a singular form to refer to people with a non-binary gender identity.
The winner was decided in a vote by the bodys 350 members at an annual gathering on Friday.
People want to choose something that stands the test of time and sums up the decade as a whole, said linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer. [ ]
Other words on the list for word of the decade included meme, which came in second place, followed by climate, #BlackLivesMatter, woke and MeToo.
(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...
Only if you let them.
There is no context in which it could be considered good.
Doesn’t calling an individual “they” imply there are multiple personalities residing in them. I think they used to call this schizophrenia.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Cunning.
Teaching who?
Even the youngest in my family laugh at this nonsense.
Dems and msm and hollyweird are in a world where the whole country is focused on impeachment.
Just because they want something to be so...doesn’t make it so.
"They Live"
Word of the decade:
Fake
Fake birth certificate
Fake statistics
Fake polls
Fake primary elections (democrats)
Fake outrage
Fake news
fake charges of impeachment
etc.
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