[Ads-l] Apparently brainless reporting on alternative 3rd person pronouns

[Jonathan Lighter]

>  *Words like thou, thy and thee are making a comeback, for those who do
not
identify as male or female.*

The horror is that it could be true. What weird hypothesis lies behind
*this*?

JL

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 2:46 AM Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> WTF???
>
>
> Am I missing something here, or is the business about archaic 2nd person
> singular pronouns totally irrelevant?
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> https://kywnewsradio.radio.com/articles/news/how-gender-identity-and-some-old-english-come-together-international-pronoun-day
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> October 25, 2018
> *How gender identity and some 'old English' come together on International
> Pronoun Day*
> Kristen Johanson
> October 16, 2018 - 10:05 pm
>
> PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) -- Wednesday is the inaugural International
> Pronoun Day, designed to make people more concious of everyday speech, and
> to respect others' gender identity.
>
> *Words like thou, thy and thee are making a comeback, for those who do not
> identify as male or female.*
>
> "We do revert back to that old English because it is something where we
> evolved from," said Nyk Robertson is Associate Director of Gender and
> Sexuality initiatives at Swarthmore College.
>
> Mark Mandel
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