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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To me, one hint that a lot of this stuff is pageantry is how they fake-decline the pronouns, like there's so much right to explaining how to us third-person singular masculine or feminine pronouns.  "Here, just so you have it handy, the object form is 'him.'" {I nod thoughtfully and record it in my notebook.} Additionally, the common practice of doing "he/him/his" and "she/her/hers" is grammatically really weird. The only way these three pronouns make sense is if the order they go in is subject/object/independent possessive pronoun. But it makes no sense to provide an independent possessive pronoun (which is used only infrequently) while not listing the dependent possessive pronoun (which is used all the time). The reason, of course, is because people don't want to say "she/her/her" or "she/her/her/hers", so they just go with what sounds good and pretend it's oh so grammatically rigorous.

I will have unimaginable respect for the first person I see whose email signature block says "he (but no declensions please)." I will buy he a drink![/quote]

What is this mumble jumble?[/quote]

Grammar Nazi.[/quote]

Attention to detail is a useful proxy for analytical rigor. If something this objectively illogical escapes notice, maybe the crew should trap the breaks on rewriting one of the fundamental postulates of human biology.[/quote]

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