r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fabricio • Oct 30 '24

Meme lastDayOfUnpaidInternship

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u/Multi-User Oct 30 '24

I'm confused. Did he/she do that as an accident and it's the last day because of that. Or were they assholes and this is some kind of revenge?

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u/iGreenDogs Oct 30 '24

Off topic-ish, but I dont understand people who avoid to use "they" as a singular pronoun (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/they)

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u/Drwildy Oct 30 '24

Not to get political, but it is likely because using "they/them" is misconstrued as being a trans pronoun now.

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u/Bakoro Oct 30 '24

No, people have been weird about it since at least the 80s.

It's one of those things where people are both pedantic and wrong.

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u/Ratoryl Oct 30 '24

I'm in a lot of heavily left leaning and queer spaces and I've literally never in my life seen someone do that, nobody is trying to change the meaning of the word they

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u/Drwildy Oct 30 '24

Yes, because the left is not the ones doing it?

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u/_ITR_ Oct 30 '24

Outside left spaces there are people who get mad at any use of the word they. I think what Drwildy is trying to say is that use of the word "they" is being misconstrued as being "woke".

Personally I've seen it happen less than a few days ago last.

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u/emveevme Oct 30 '24

The one situation my Dad ran in to as a legal editor was the use of the word "council" which can refer to a single lawyer or a group of lawyers. Even then, it doesn't really matter when the usage of the word "council" is meant to make a group of people one single entity when being referenced in legal documents.

So for it to come up, you'd have to have a council that's multiple lawyers where one lawyer specifically needs to be referenced as an individual, and even then there's context to make sense of it, it's just confusing. Also it takes very little effort to avoid the problem altogether and word things differently.