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Although the singular “they” seems uniquely modern, it is not. Single individuals could be “they” in relative clauses. The OED offers this miniature history: “With an antecedent referring to an individual generically or indefinitely (e.g. someone, a person, the student), used esp. so as to make a general reference to such an individual without specifying gender.” The OED’s first example is from 1450. Here is a good example from the writings of Lord Chesterfield from 1759: “If a person is born of a … gloomy temper … they cannot help it.” The magazine The Listener, a model of mid-twentieth-century British prose, offers this example from 1968: “When somebody becomes prime minister they’re immediately put on a pedestal.”
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like go you know
Also marching on is the increasing use of words such as “like,” forms of the verb “t...
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委婉语与说谎:信任的丧失。
This fundamental split between official language and popular trust characterizes change...
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尊重语义就可以了……
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在英语中,没有任何东西从根本上使它比其他语言更好或更强大。它的全球传播是殖民、商业和通信技术的结果。
This textbook has presented English as a means of communicating and describing, imagini...
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