Negro Matapacos (“Black Cop-Killer”) was a famous stray dog from thestreets of Santiago who joined student protests across the city from 2010, and in particular during the 2011 movement for free education.
he was a stray dog from the streets of Santiago, and began joining student demonstrations in 2010. The following year, one of the biggest social movements since the fall of the military dictatorship began, fighting for free education and against neoliberal reforms to the education system.
Negro Matapacos was then seen regularly at every demonstration, defying tear gas and water cannons and always barking at or attacking only the riot police, and never any students or rioters. He subsequently continued to appear sporadically at future demonstrations, and hung out on university campuses, becoming beloved to student and radical movements as a symbol of resistance to violent authority.
His last days were spent resting with people who took him in, with a crowdfunded veterinarian.
Some people who knew him sent us some of their memories of him, telling us how he defied tear gas and water cannons, and only ever barked at or attacked police officers, and never students or rioters.
After his death, his legacy lives on in songs, street murals, an award-winning documentary and in the memories of all those who knew him. He was a good boy.
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When 'they' is used as a singular pronoun, it'd make grammatical sense to use third person verb conjugations as well. I don't really see people do this though? Can any native speakers weigh in?
(Example: They walks to the car. They sees a friend.)
That sounds incredibly wrong to my ears and, because English is a language governed by vibes instead of rules, is therefore incorrect usage
Right that's what I thought as well, but at the same time it's kind of odd to use a singular pronoun with plural conjugations for the verbs. Wasn't sure if this was a thing the :british-maw: & :amerikkka-clap: has already sorted out or not
Unfortunately there is a solid correct answer, and that answer is to use the plural conjugations even though you’re talking about a singular person, which is dumb and stupid and genuinely makes it more difficult to use singular they for people
It's still "they walk to the car " even if there is more than one person
I’m pretty sure they’re saying for a single person it should be “they walks to the car” instead to match up with he or she
I’ve always said this, and the only reason it’s wrong is because the vibes are off and it sounds wrong.
Most English speakers don’t consciously know how their language actually works at all, but can absolutely point out when something is wrong
It is a wildly inconsistent language, so you just have to go off of vibes. I have studied multiple languages and can understand why they walks might be appealing, but they walk simply looks and sounds better.
It’s so interesting to me that even though no one consciously knows the rules when you hear it you know instantly. Like only one of these is right:
The big bouncy red rubber ball
The red bouncy rubber big ball
And if you speak English you instantly know which is which
I would probably say it big red bouncy rubber ball.but yeah it's such a weird language.
That’s what I put the first time and I second guessed myself. So I guess my own instincts aren’t that good. But definitely the second one is more wrong.
It wasn't far off, and had cool alliteration. English is such an order dependent language people just blue screen if I ask "The pepper and salt may I have?"
This will sound ungrammatical and wrong to any native speaker
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But they isn't replacing I, it’s replacing he or she.
He walks to the car
She walks to the car
They walks to the car
But that sounds very not right
They are walking to the car is correct though.
Yeah that’s the problem it shouldn’t be. To line up with the other singular pronouns it should be they is walking to the car.
It’s a plural pronoun being applied to individuals. If English was more strict with its grammatical rules it wouldn’t be correct usage to use they for singular individuals at all
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It is always correct to say “they walk to the car” whether it’s singular or plural, according to the rules of English.
But that’s dumb and stupid and makes using singular they for people’s pronouns harder
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You're right from a pure grammatical similarity perspective, but English is inconsistent and vibes based. It sounds wrong so we won't do that for at least a generation. A faster and better solution would be to import a foreign pronoun for a singular individual which is not gendered(not necessarily neuter as that can be dehumanizing, and removing the possibility of gender isn't always correct where ambiguity could be), but anglosphere did too much colonizing so we won't need to borrow a word or have it forced on us, everyone speaks our tongue.
It's fine and feels right to use "they are" anyway, just wanted to make sure it wasn't like, a thing to insist on "they is" for NB acceptance.
I guess non-binary people can weigh in on that, I'm just giving my linguistic perspective. I'd probably change if asked.
Well that's why I asked here, woke native English speakers everywhere. I don't speak English in my daily life, so I'm not aware of pronoun discourse.