the singular they
Twelve Frogs excerpted an article from Arts & Letters Daily that I somehow missed: Singular They: The Pronoun That Came In From the Cold. I'm still vastly interested in this topic, even though I haven't written anything about it in forever now. I used to think about it quite a bit, here and here and here. The last one is my favorite, because that's where stonefishspine pointed out to me that "ya'll" is the perfect singular they.
I'm a bit sad that my thesis won't be on a queer topic, but I've become so interested in the concept of an intellectual commons and how it might work, and I already have about 30 pages of work in that area. So it just seems like the thing to do. Still, it's important to keep talking about queerness and inclusiveness in speech. I hadn't seen anything on it lately, and I'm glad to see that the topic is still being bandied about out there.
