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Yes! The use of singular "they" certainly has a fairly long history. Thanks for keeping the conversation going, @SaveDareDevil-Mx !

Ha! [Insert Mad Max Fury Road "That's bait" meme here.]

@@SWLF heh it worked

I just searched up the meme you were talking abt, I've never seen that meme in my life

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Great question, @sooryanarayanan4273 ! These kinds of "mass nouns" are instances of nouns that cannot be easily pluralized. Under certain circumstances, however, they can be made countable and therefore plural. For example: "The luck of the Irish and the luck of the draw may be phrases that draw upon the same word, but readers should note that these lucks differ from one another."

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What a great example! Yes, this is a fantastic illustration of tonal shifts. Thanks so much for sending it our way!

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Thanks so much for your continued support!

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Thanks, Jane! That was for the Dramatic Monologue lesson, right?

Thanks for the comment, @lineararquitectura7601 ! Plenty of good stories rely upon deus ex machinas, so we wouldn't suggest that there is anything wrong with your approach. As we'll discuss in a future video, the expectation that a singular character can resolve their issues by themselves is a fairly individualistic attitude to take, and plenty of fiction that engages with large problems such as climate change struggle to create tidy resolutions to meet this individualist expectation.

Great question, Uno! The easiest way to look avoid confusing with pronouns is to look for an "antecedent"--the noun to which a pronoun refers. In the example from the video, Prof Bushnell begins with the sentence "If a writer cares about grammar, they’ll use pronouns carefully." Here, the antecedent is clear (they is a stand-in for writer). As you suggest, the same principle works in French (and in many other languages, for that matter) for honorific pronouns without much confusion, provided the antecedent is clear. It may seem strange to you, but it is fairly common practice at the moment to have they stand in for BOTH plural and singular antecedents. Hope that helps!

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@@SWLF I will watch them this week 😁

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Ha! Thanks for the ironic post, Meenakshi. If you'd like to check out a transcript of the lesson, you can find it here: liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/what-irony

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Hmm, that depends on context. Could you please provide a sense of how liking the video could be construed as either situational, dramatic, or verbal irony? Once you have provided those details, we'll be able to tell you BOTH if you are being ironic AND if our response to your question is ironic.

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Interesting! In our experience, a run-on sentence occurs when two independent clauses are "spliced" together without a proper punctuation mark (a semicolon or a period) or a coordinating conjunction (like "and").

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