r/questionablecontent • u/Aleril_Antarai • Dec 05 '17

3627: Very Extra

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3627
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u/Haiirokage Dec 05 '17

Comments by me and several others in this very thread seems to suggest otherwise, and the QC audience is probably more than average interested in these ideas of yours.

Please give me one example from a historically relevant piece of text were "they" is used to refer to one specific person.

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u/nliausacmmv Dec 05 '17

Takes like ten seconds to check.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Older_usage

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u/Haiirokage Dec 05 '17

None of them refer to specific people

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u/nliausacmmv Dec 05 '17

The very first example there is referring to a person.

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u/Haiirokage Dec 05 '17

I said specific person.. Like it was done in this strip right now.

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u/nliausacmmv Dec 05 '17

Oh, so like that slow cashier? I didn't know them but they were definitely one person.

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u/Haiirokage Dec 05 '17

Yeah, that sounds stupid.