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Today’s ‘Things we wish English had’ comes from a Dinosaur Comics from earlier in the week (click for original): We’ve talked about gender before, and while English doesn’t have as impressive a system as many other languages we still have some traces of gender. For example, words for some humans and animals are gender specific (woman, girl, hen, filly, etc.) and there are some quirky anomalies where inanimate objects receive gender (think of ships and cars being referred to as her). But when it comes to third person singular pronouns you have to either use a gendered form, or the ungendered form which is not appropriate for humans. Well, that’s according to T-Rex who stubbornly refuses to use 'they’ for single person. This is a common quibble but many people happily use single person they and don’t find it ungrammatical. Language Log have long championed the 'single they,’ and Motivated Grammar also have a long post on 'single they.’ So perhaps we don’t need to bother wishing English had a single person animate gender-neutral third person, and instead wish that English just had slightly fewer people (and dinosaurs) who persisted in maintaining arbitrary distinctions that aren’t actually reflected in the way many people use language. Fortunately, later in the week, T-Rex realised that single 'they’ is ok - so that’s a start. Although I guess that just takes us back to wishing there was a distinction between third person gender neutral singular and plural in the same way we talked about the second person pronouns.

The Dinosaur Comics crew are trying out a punctuation free day today it makes for some confusing times (click for original)

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