Does D have any political goals?

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Wed Nov 9 20:50:25 UTC 2022


On Wednesday, 9 November 2022 at 19:52:47 UTC, Araq wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 November 2022 at 17:10:28 UTC, rikki cattermole 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> "They" is highly offensive to me fwiw as it's completely 
> against the English grammar that I learned at school. Singular 
> 3rd person form of to "be" is "is". Do you say "they is"? No 
> you don't, ergo it cannot be a singular form.
>
> There is nothing "inclusive" about wrong English. I've heard 
> "they" used incorrectly about a million times now. It will 
> never sound correct to me no matter how often I hear it.

Actually this is proper Queen's English dating back to the 14th 
century for first written cases of such use.



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