1719 Ivory Tower 5-13-16
Season 12 Episode 7 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Unity Nonsense; When they is a singular pronoun; the FDA blows it on E Cigs
Was the made-for-tv meeting of Donald Trump and Paul Ryan was anything more significant than a CNN count-down clock moment. Then a problem with the English language that we do not have a gender-neutral first person pronoun. “He” and “She” don’t do it. But “they” is gender-neutral. So should we now consider “they” to be a singular form of the pronoun for grammatical purposes? The FDA on E-Cigs
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Ivory Tower is a local public television program presented by WCNY
1719 Ivory Tower 5-13-16
Season 12 Episode 7 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Was the made-for-tv meeting of Donald Trump and Paul Ryan was anything more significant than a CNN count-down clock moment. Then a problem with the English language that we do not have a gender-neutral first person pronoun. “He” and “She” don’t do it. But “they” is gender-neutral. So should we now consider “they” to be a singular form of the pronoun for grammatical purposes? The FDA on E-Cigs
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