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I never said I was going to eat raw pototes, DVW made that up. stop bullying....  |
I think the big misunderstanding is coming from the very concept of
pronouns. In this case, a person has said publicly that their preferred
pronouns are they/them.
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Pronoun
noun
noun: pronoun; plural noun: pronouns
a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this ).
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The word comes from Latin, and literally means "in place of the name."
In English, pronouns replace a person's name in a sentence. For example, rather than writing:
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Jack went to the store, and then Jack filled up Jack's car with gas, and returned to Jack's house.
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It is much more efficient to identify the object of the sentence (Jack) once, and then use pronouns for the remainder of the sentence. For example:
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Jack went to the store, and then he filled up his car with gas, and returned to his house."
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Common pronouns in English referring to humans are she/her/hers, he/him/his, and they/them/theirs. There are others, but let's keep it simple.
Other pronouns, following the same grammatical rules, include I, it, this, etc. Because we wouldn't say "I turned the lamp on but the lamp wasn't plugged in," rather we would say "I turned the lamp on but
it wasn't plugged in." But we would never use "it" in place of a persons name in a sentence, because that is dehumanizing.
So in the case at hand, Tristan made it public that they use the pronouns they/them/theirs. So, if one were to say "Tristan makes interesting music, and Tristan has great hair," applying Tristan's preferred pronouns, one could instead say "Tristan makes interesting music, and
they have great hair."
/End of Lesson One. Please submit any clarifying questions below.