Dictator needed
Dictator needed
Posted Apr 4, 2012 14:11 UTC (Wed) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)In reply to: Dictator needed by nix
Parent article: Fedora release naming "is a" bit contentious
> So, yes, 'they' is just wrong, as long as you consider Chaucer, Swift, Thackeray, Orwell, and, hell, pretty much every other English speaker of the last thousand years whose words have been recorded to be wrong.
You nailed it. The nice thing about English is that every speaker is an authorized reformer equal to all others. I take it you don't want to join my campaign for the abolition of the use of 'they' as a singular. Would you care, instead, to join me in condemning the practice of writing the currency sign as a prefix to a number? It reads better to say e.e. 100$ than $100, so it should be switched (and $100 is absolutely wrong!).
You nailed it. The nice thing about English is that every speaker is an authorized reformer equal to all others. I take it you don't want to join my campaign for the abolition of the use of 'they' as a singular. Would you care, instead, to join me in condemning the practice of writing the currency sign as a prefix to a number? It reads better to say e.e. 100$ than $100, so it should be switched (and $100 is absolutely wrong!).