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> Every surpreme court article makes me hate this community a bit more.

I mean, HN is kinda a go to place for pendantry, it's not terribly surprising. People started a huge fight over whether the word "they" can refer to a single individual the other week.



I think you give HN too much credit.

Not every topic evokes pedantry. HN has specific interests, and brings out nitpicking to advance specific causes.


Singular they goes back far enough in English that you can find it spelled with thorn, but of course people here know better.


> People started a huge fight over whether the word "they" can refer to a single individual the other week.

Link please?




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