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yeah. i'm deleting this blog tonight.

i'll probably make another and refollow some of you guys.

it's been real.

take care.

going to sleep before i delete my blog because i'm sick of you people.

every time I use “they” to refer to a single gender-unknown person on Tumblr, another piece of my grammar-filled heart shatters, and the pieces scatter at the bottom of hell

davidemmerich

“They” has been a singular pronoun for hundreds of years, you melodramatic dipshit.

miguel-the-sexy-and-powerful-god

well… actually… no… they is plural. people use they when they should use he, she, or it.

baras-deactivated20150906

dense motherfucker, the pronoun “they” is an english equivalent for the third person indefinite singular and has been for literally centuries. it remains morphologically and syntactically plural therefore you don’t need to shit your little pantaloons at compromising your surely rock solid grammar rules.

i guarantee every fuckin time you’ve ever had to refer to a person of an unknown gender you’ve used “they” subconsciously. (“The post clerk gave me a message for you.” “Oh, what did they say?”) but you only have a problem with it when people specify it as a pronoun for themselves because you’re a shitlord i fuckin guess.

manthedog

grammarized straight into hell

whappara-para-blog

cackles linguistically

visiblemonster-archive-blog

ACTUALLY, if we’re speaking in regards to academically- and professionally-accepted grammar, it is overwhelmingly incorrect to use “they” or “their” when referring to one person.

baras

“every time I use “they” to refer to a single gender-unknown person on Tumblr”

no one is talking about academics and also no it’s not overwhelmingly incorrect. i’ve had professors discuss my use of singular they in papers with me and find my usage perfectly acceptable. in case you feel like dismissing the credibility of this claim, one of the professors in question is a leading scholar in linguistics. some professors and academics don’t mind it, others do.

when it comes to colloquial usage, which is what this discussion is about, it’s perfectly acceptable. no matter forum it’s used in, singular they is “gramatically correct”, there are just some forums where it’s not stylistically appropriate (yet). just like you wouldn’t put most forms of casual speech in an academic paper, or use the passive voice.

and let’s be frank, very few of the people on tumblr have to ever worry about writing an academic paper at a level where it really matters, so they have no reason to use that as a claim against singular they. sorry everyones high school english teachers docked them points for using singular they, that doesn’t mean anyone has the right to dismiss anyone’s preferred pronouns. especially on a website which, for the most part, eschews almost every standard grammar rule.

visiblemonster-archive-blog

i'm really not about to believe or agree with your stance on grammar if you didn't even put your comma inside your quotation marks, bruh.

ginadanielsjfc

every time I use “they” to refer to a single gender-unknown person on Tumblr, another piece of my grammar-filled heart shatters, and the pieces scatter at the bottom of hell

davidemmerich

“They” has been a singular pronoun for hundreds of years, you melodramatic dipshit.

miguel-the-sexy-and-powerful-god

well… actually… no… they is plural. people use they when they should use he, she, or it.

baras-deactivated20150906

dense motherfucker, the pronoun “they” is an english equivalent for the third person indefinite singular and has been for literally centuries. it remains morphologically and syntactically plural therefore you don’t need to shit your little pantaloons at compromising your surely rock solid grammar rules.

i guarantee every fuckin time you’ve ever had to refer to a person of an unknown gender you’ve used “they” subconsciously. (“The post clerk gave me a message for you.” “Oh, what did they say?”) but you only have a problem with it when people specify it as a pronoun for themselves because you’re a shitlord i fuckin guess.

manthedog

grammarized straight into hell

whappara-para-blog

cackles linguistically

visiblemonster-archive-blog

ACTUALLY, if we’re speaking in regards to academically- and professionally-accepted grammar, it is overwhelmingly incorrect to use “they” or “their” when referring to one person.

everythingzembarrassing

Then how come:

(Look at ‘2.’)

visiblemonster-archive-blog

i said academically- and professionally-accepted grammar. "bootylicious" is also in the dictionary, but i wouldn't write that in a thesis or on a fucking job application.

-circa

ginadanielsjfc

every time I use “they” to refer to a single gender-unknown person on Tumblr, another piece of my grammar-filled heart shatters, and the pieces scatter at the bottom of hell

davidemmerich

“They” has been a singular pronoun for hundreds of years, you melodramatic dipshit.

miguel-the-sexy-and-powerful-god

well… actually… no… they is plural. people use they when they should use he, she, or it.

baras-deactivated20150906

dense motherfucker, the pronoun “they” is an english equivalent for the third person indefinite singular and has been for literally centuries. it remains morphologically and syntactically plural therefore you don’t need to shit your little pantaloons at compromising your surely rock solid grammar rules.

i guarantee every fuckin time you’ve ever had to refer to a person of an unknown gender you’ve used “they” subconsciously. (“The post clerk gave me a message for you.” “Oh, what did they say?”) but you only have a problem with it when people specify it as a pronoun for themselves because you’re a shitlord i fuckin guess.

manthedog

grammarized straight into hell

whappara-para-blog

cackles linguistically

visiblemonster-archive-blog

ACTUALLY, if we're speaking in regards to academically- and professionally-accepted grammar, it is overwhelmingly incorrect to use "they" or "their" when referring to one person.

i didn't know Ryan Gosling was Canadian.

oops.

softshockside-blog

visiblemonster-archive-blog

“Before I ever met my husband, we began talking on the Internet. He had asked me to sing on a project he was doing with Chris Conley from Saves The Day called Two Tongues, so we started emailing back and forth. I was fresh off the divorced block and seriously avoiding the opposite sex, but there was just something super intense and crazy about the connection I felt with him, so we continued to talk. One night when we were chatting—he was in California, I was in Texas—we were discussing Lord Of The Rings and started Googling the actors. We stumbled on a photo of Liv Tyler after recently delivering her child, prancing around on the beach in a state of sheer joy. We found it to be absolutely amazing and started captioning the photo and the one that stuck was, “GLORY BE!”

This was all in late January. A few weeks later, my Valentine’s Day gifts arrived in the mail from him—though we still weren’t officially dating, we were smitten and sent each other valentines. I opened up my Valentine card and was sold.

It was a piece of paper he had printed from the Internet of the shot of Liv Tyler in her bathing suit, arms raised to the sky and over her head in bold handwriting just said “GLORY BE!” On the back he had written the most amazing letter asking me to be his girlfriend. Before that year had ended, we were engaged. Our fifth Valentine’s together will be this year, our three-year wedding anniversary will be this spring and I couldn’t imagine being any happier. GLORY BE!”

-SHERRI DUPREE-BEMIS

#this is what i want.

nicolaswindingrefns

In the elevator scene is where Driver realizes that the circumstances have led to this—they’re in an elevator and he knows what he has to do now, and he will lose her forever, so he kisses her goodbye, because he knows he now has to go to the dark side in order to protect her. -Nicolas Winding Refn

Speakeasy closes at 5pm on sundays, which i just found out, so i can't get my tattoo touched up tonight.

stellar.

it's sunday. fuck yes. Girls comes on tonight.

maiaisafag-deactivated20140413

Favorite Movies | SLC Punk! (1999) → “You see life is like that. We change, that’s all. You see, the guy I am now is not the guy I was then. If the guy I was then met the guy I am now he’d beat the shit out of me. Those are the facts.”

#gonna watch this when i get home.