allthingslinguistic:

Next time someone complains about singular “they” I’ll point them to this 17th century rant against singular “you”.

Here’s the original book the screencap is from.

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noragamis:

“Your pronoun doesn’t even work” 👀 check it.

Here’s the whole article if anyone wants to read it: Washington Post.

coluring:

proper punctuation can make the difference between a sentence that’s well-written and a sentence that’s, well, written.