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  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    not sure if I understood this right, but "themself" is definitely still in pretty widespread use
    as in: "grab your kid before they hurt themself" for example

      • Cascadia_ [they/them]
        2·
        4 years ago

        "Correct" language is prescriptivism, and has no place here. Language is defined by the people who speak it.

      • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
        1·
        4 years ago

        not where I live mate, round here it's "themself" if it's referring to a single person of unknown gender
        mostly used referring to suicides, sadly

              • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
                1·
                4 years ago

                The gender neutral singular is currently considered not correct grammatically

                incorrect, you are basing this entirely on google search results and a north american viewpoint

          • the_river_cass [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            google probably returns results for both on both searches, tbh. tenses and suffixes that are close together are frequently returned as the same thing. you used to be able to force it not to do this but they took those features out 10+ years ago. so this is a bad way to prove this point.

          • sailorfish [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            I think 373k is actually a lot, especially if you consider that "killed themselves" could refer to both "they (singular) killed themselves" and "they (multiple people, e.g. a cult) killed themselves". I think it's more common in British English already, so like you I hope it spreads and becomes more accepted in American English as well.