Quotes About Pronoun

I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

Turing test is best replaced by the Winograd Schema, which tests one's ability to make simple but important semantic distinctions based on the application of wide general knowledge to a problem created by a definite pronoun. "The large ball crashed through the table because it was made of aerogel.

In another message he wrote, "I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three.

ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.

I see the wielding of a pronoun as something that can be freeing for some members of society but a shackle to others like myself.

that is not just a relative pronoun but also a stand-alone pronoun, a demonstrative adjective, and a conjunction.

The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the default has been proscribed. Some male writers get around this problem by defaulting to the feminine singular pronoun, which I think is icky.

It's not like me and Lesley are inconspicuous,' I'd said. Nightingale had winced, as he always does, at my incorrect use of the accusative pronoun but I think I'm beginning to wear him down.

The stars dehisce. By "stars" I mean, of course, tradition , and by "tradition" I mean nothing at all. A pronoun disembowels his antecedent. Stop me if you've heard this one before.

Jeeves, I must ask your assistance in the matter of the pronoun.

As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position.

Way to pronoun, Saunders says.

The light of his plural pronoun was sufficiently reflected in his companion's face as he again met it; and he completed his demonstration.

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: 'they' does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

We do have to be on guard these days or we're likely to get swatted by a belligerent pronoun or hit with a preposition we didn't see coming. These are perilous times for the English language, in case you hadn't noticed.

I can't even say her name. She doesn't even have a name. She is she . She is her . She possesses the pronoun so completely that no one else can touch it. There is only one her in the great stinking gas giant of my heart, fifty feet high. She is a giantess. I am no one. Well, not "no one". I am Anchises St. John. But I am no one's him .

Their delusion is also tacit in the community heard defensive retort to Black Lives Matter that "all lives matter." Rather than being inclusive, "all" is a walled-off pronoun, a defensive measure to "not make it about race" so that the invisible hegemony of whiteness can continue unchallenged.

That's the whole point of my trying to achieve success in mainstream pop - to have straight people sing to my music that has a 'she' pronoun in it.

The ladies of the church have cast off clothing of every kind, and they can be seen in the church basement Friday afternoon." This doozy, culled by Richard Lederer from a church bulletin, is an instance of "obscure pronomial reference," or, in plain English, a pronoun without a clear antecedent.

The long form of the possessive pronoun replaces the noun. completely.

I understand that some people prefer the third person plural for a pronoun,' he replied, having recently interviewed a pop singer on his show who'd insisted upon this, leading one of the cameramen to be fired for calling them Sibyl, after the Sally Field movie about the woman with multiple personalities.

He – or She – or whichever pronoun God is –

If I was religious, I'd say it was God. And as God is probably someone we can't see or comprehend then He – or She – or whichever pronoun God is – becomes an image of someone good we have known in our lives.