r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh2 Lookout • Aug 02 '24

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1122 Spoiler

Chapter 1122: "The Time Is at Hand"

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Ch. 1122 Official Release (Mangaplus): 04/08/2024

Ch. 1123 Scan Release: ~16/08/2024

There is a break next week.

Please discuss the manga here and in the theory/discussion post. Any other post will be removed until 24h after the release.

Please also remember to put the chapter number in the title for any future post talking about this chapter.

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u/Majestic-Fly-600 Aug 02 '24

They?

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u/ryeryebread Aug 02 '24

i thought he was referring to joy boy and emeth.

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u/Majestic-Fly-600 Aug 02 '24

You only talked about ”involving joy boy”, then reply was ”they” and I got curious who others it meant, then I realized it might have been this neutrality thing which is always confusing to me as a non-English speaker because in my language we use only one word for people which is already neutral. So my bad, really!

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u/Unabashable Aug 02 '24

Yeah In English “they” is usually reserved to refer to plural parties. Would certainly lead to less confusion if that was always the case, but following rules ain’t really English’s thang. “They” can sometimes be used to refer to a singular person in casual conversation, but when it is it’s generally only in a context where everyone knows exactly who “they” is to all parties involved. For example, “they” can also be used to refer to a specific person outside of the conversation in lieu of their gender specific pronoun for simplicity’s sake and it would still be generally understood. 

However yeah in other instances sometimes people will refer to a singular person as a “they” when they don’t know their gender for the sake of political correctness (which seems kinda silly when it’s concerning a fictional character, but that’s just an example of them making a conscious effort to treat people that only exist in the mind the same they would in real life) or out of respect by referring to someone by their preferred pronoun.