Merriam Webster makes a grammatically incorrect statement to try and define “Themself”
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That is just an out and out lie.
Only far leftoids and people genuflecting to far leftoids talk like that.
"chiefly" is a colonial settler culturally appropriated stolen word. And racist. I'm pretty sure it's misogynistic, too. Do better Merri*m Webster
The primary use of this abomination is to replace actual English words. That part is accurate.
The implication that it's used by anyone other than dyed-hair screeching weirdos is false.
The correct statement is “each person can decide for themselves” as “each person” is indicative of a plurality not a singular.
No it isn't. "Each person" is both grammatically and logically singular.
Well that's the stupidest take of the day, pray tell, what does each mean?
Each is a singular of a plural. “Each apple was delicious” is not the statement of a singular. “Each person can make their own decisions” is a singular under each but speaking of a plural.
With this usage of 'each' you are iterating through members of a set, referring to all members of the set individually.
And themself is not a word, just as himselves is not. Them applies pluralism, therefore the only grammatical sentence is “each person can decide for themselves”
As the dictionary says, "every one of two or more people or things, regarded and identified separately".
It’s more than one by any usage otherwise the term itself is redundant as I said before. The adverb also only represents the noun in question. This is why each use of “them” denotes a plurality
No it isn't. You are just making stuff up.
"Oneself" already exists, ijits.
My expectations for this Dictionary of Newspeak are very low, so I'm at least glad they called it 'themself'. These are the same people who redefined 'sexual preference' overnight so the Democrats could smear ACB, and who redefined racism because a black teenage female complained about it.
So the meaning isn't 'gofuckyourselves if you think I'm using this stupid pronoun'
"Dictionary" Fuck these people and fuck their woke bullshit.
This is why I have a physical dictionary from the 1980s.
The only common use case I can think of for the singular themself is in the idiom "they themself", so they are probably right that the most common use now is for pronoun handwringing.
Can't wait for "slay" to be edited to be "chiefly used to indicate a homosexual person succeeding" now we're codifying stupid things based on popularity.
Or devolves as the case here as they break their own grammatical standards to appease feelings.
ThatsAlright is a real life tranni loving communist, or at least anti-capitalist. Hence his pov
"Language evolves" is just a commi tactic to assert power. Language changes when there is a consensus around the change. Clearly this case is highly contested and most likely just a minority would not oppose it.
It is just a power move from your favorite monsters
But there is a consensus on the use of snowflake, sort of as people misuse snowflake but is in fact as a reference to actual snowflake. As in you are like a snowflake. I do not see this applying here
At gunpoint.
Strictly true, in the same sense that cancer is an evolutionary trait.