friendly reminder, fyi, that -and I cannot stress this enough- these are memes and editorial conventions don’t apply to twitter. send tweet https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1221632852124741632 …
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in the replies to the quoted tweet I see a lot of patronizing attitudes to vernacular speech also which is a terrible attitude to have
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stop policing other people’s language 2k20
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
*sound of prescriptivists dry-heaving to singular "they" in the background*
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval
I will shove the Middle English evidence for singular they down all their necks.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Prescriptivists, it turns out, are also often bad at language history. (pssssst the only reason we can't split infinitives in english is because you can't do it in latin and some boring old white guy was like "if you can't do it in latin you can NEVER DO IT")
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