Ok, reading this comic for the first time, and this page really confuses me. Why does Gyno-star say ‘she’ when there were quite obviously men in the buying line when Sappho started selling these things?
Haha. The way we use words should determine what is correct, shouldn’t it? But to me, using “they” as a singular sounds wrong. I couldn’t bring myself to do it.
My favourite solution to this one is have women default to saying “she” just like men have historically defaulted to saying “he.” I’ve seen some author’s like David Weber use it in the inner monologues of female characters.
Tell Sappho to make a male version.
Ok, reading this comic for the first time, and this page really confuses me. Why does Gyno-star say ‘she’ when there were quite obviously men in the buying line when Sappho started selling these things?
Because “he or she” is too wordy.
Wouldn’t “they” have worked just as well? I realize I’m nitpicking at this point, but still.
“They” would be grammatically incorrect.
Why do things that sound right have to be wrong?
Haha. The way we use words should determine what is correct, shouldn’t it? But to me, using “they” as a singular sounds wrong. I couldn’t bring myself to do it.
My favourite solution to this one is have women default to saying “she” just like men have historically defaulted to saying “he.” I’ve seen some author’s like David Weber use it in the inner monologues of female characters.
No it wouldn’t. Singular “they” is fine — it was even used by Shakespeare.
Shakespeare wrote A LOT of grammatically incorrect things.
If you’re speaking Latin. Are you speaking Latin?
In some languages, grammatical gender has little to do with sex. “meisje”, he Dutch word for little girl, for example, is neuter.
Wait, shouldn’t that make it a 1.1?