"The individual is more powerful today than they ever have been in the past"- @Snowden talks w @reasonhttp://reason.com/reasontv/2016/02/25/edward-snowden …
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@Snowden@nickgillespie@reason Some grammar Nazis unpersuaded... -
@kurt_loder@Snowden@nickgillespie@reason finally the snowden-kurt loder grammar battle we've been craving
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@Snowden@nickgillespie@reason But this can be achieved with better sentence-planning, without torturing the language... -
@kurt_loder@Snowden@reason less is more here: "The individual is more powerful than ever" is probably better, but we get the point. -
@VincentTaddei@Snowden@reason True. And "correct usage" is ever-changing. Issue here, I think, is graceful structure...
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@Snowden@kurt_loder Can we come up with a better term for "Grammar Nazi"? Individuals like me...they don't like being called that.#grammar -
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@Snowden sorry. Was referring to self, actually...
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@Snowden@kurt_loder I prefer something along the lines of "logophile", as its root is based in love.
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@Snowden@kurt_loder@nickgillespie@reason It is a perfectly normal and grammatically correct mode of English to use "they" generally.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@kurt_loder it's likely@Snowden already knows this after learning from fellow whistle-blower@xychelsea; it's not too late for you to learnThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Snowden@nickgillespie@kurt_loder@reason when used in reference to government it allows citizens to absolve responsibility for atrocitiesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Snowden@kurt_loder@nickgillespie language is a decentralized construct anyway! There is no better manifestation of individual power! -
@mjelgart@Snowden@nickgillespie If we all decided to speak our own language, conversation would be difficult to come by... -
@kurt_loder@Snowden@nickgillespie of course! It's clearly a collective decision, yet it's still made in a decentralized fashion. -
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@Snowden There was the time I had an online argument about that with Andrew S. Tanenbaum. He's against.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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