语言:他说,他们说
Language:He said, they said
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Language:He said, they said
pronoun Trouble.
ONE OF THE most effective television ads last year during Donald Trump’s campaign for president warned voters: “Kamala is for they/them, not you.”Less than two weeks after taking office in January, Mr Trump ordered federal employees to remove their preferred pronouns from their email signatures.
Videos of lawmakers deliberately addressing their peers with the wrong pronouns subsequently went viral.
Parts of speech that used to star mainly in grammar lessons have become controversial political lightning rods.
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语言:他说,他们说
代词麻烦。
去年唐纳德·特朗普竞选总统期间,最有效的电视广告之一警告选民:“卡玛拉代表的是他们/她们,而不是你们。”1月上任不到两周,特朗普就命令联邦雇员从他们的电子邮件签名中删除他们偏好的代词。
随后,立法者故意用错误的代词称呼同僚的视频在网上疯传。
曾经主要在语法课上唱主角的词类,如今已成为争议性的政治避雷针。