Jowi Morales Social Links Navigation Contributing Writer Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He’s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he’s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electronics.
coolitic They didn't do it this time, but I like it when Tom's introduces them as "notoriously litigious Nintendo". Reply
RealityChex This article was confusing to read, due to the nonsensical use of they and them when referring to one dude. I went back to re-read the beginning to see if Nintendo had actually sued more defendants than Mr. Williams as part of this case. Reply
hotaru251 and sold pirated Switch games online. and justfully deserved thats an actual crime Reply
jl4980 RealityChex said: This article was confusing to read, due to the nonsensical use of they and them when referring to one dude. "They" has been used as a singular pronoun in English since 1375. So it's been a singular pronoun for 651 years, which is longer than a lot of English words have existed. I get it though, English is notoriously difficult for non-native speakers to learn, but keep at it, you'll get there eventually, and then maybe your reading comprehension will improve to the point where simple articles like this one aren't so confusing. Reply
TerryLaze jl4980 said: "They" has been used as a singular pronoun in English since 1375. No it hasn't…It was used in 1375 and for a while but it shifted to mean plural in the 18th century, that's some 300 years for it to have become purely NOT singular. Grammatical Shift: The rule prescribing that "they" must be strictly plural was introduced by prescriptive grammarians in the 18th century, similar to how "you" shifted from a strictly plural pronoun to a singular one centuries earlier. Reply
DS426 RealityChex said: This article was confusing to read, due to the nonsensical use of they and them when referring to one dude. I went back to re-read the beginning to see if Nintendo had actually sued more defendants than Mr. Williams as part of this case. jl4980 said: "They" has been used as a singular pronoun in English since 1375. So it's been a singular pronoun for 651 years, which is longer than a lot of English words have existed. I get it though, English is notoriously difficult for non-native speakers to learn, but keep at it, you'll get there eventually, and then maybe your reading comprehension will improve to the point where simple articles like this one aren't so confusing. More specifically, it's used to refer to a singular person when sex/gender isn't known; English otherwise doesn't have a masculinity-neutral word for a person beyond sharing the same word that can also be plural. Confusing, yes. That's English for you. Reply
sudokill TerryLaze said: No it hasn't…It was used in 1375 and for a while but it shifted to mean plural in the 18th century, that's some 300 years for it to have become purely NOT singular. What is that? An AI summary telling you that a handful of prescriptivists didnt like how a word was being used? Guess what? Language isn't prescriptive. It wasn't in the 18th century and it isn't now. Singular 'they' has been used for many hundreds of years. This didn't stop being true in the 18th century just because some grammarians said so. Reply
txfeinbergs More importantly to this article instead of the pronoun BS is that Nintendo will never see a dime of this, so what was the point? Reply
USAFRet txfeinbergs said: More importantly to this article instead of the pronoun BS is that Nintendo will never see a dime of this, so what was the point? 1. To protect their IP. 2. To scare off the next person. Reply
Thunder64 RealityChex said: This article was confusing to read, due to the nonsensical use of they and them when referring to one dude. I went back to re-read the beginning to see if Nintendo had actually sued more defendants than Mr. Williams as part of this case. Came here to comment on this. Not surprised I wasn't the only one. It was confusing to read they/them/their when referring to a single individual when it presumably should've been he/him/his based on the name. Unless this person lists their preferred pronouns somewhere it seems like changing the rules to not be offensive when you are going to offend people either way. Reply
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