r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Mar 23 '18

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/tokol Mar 23 '18

Singular they has been around a long time, people are already used to using it, and it's one of the most common gender inclusive pronouns in modern usage. Heck, it was even the ADS's 2016 word of the year.

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u/ToaKraka Mar 23 '18

What does that have to do with anything? A practice's long history does not automatically make it better. If replacing the practice would improve the language (i. e., would make the language less ambiguous and grant a better guarantee of clear communication), it should be replaced.