nazgul ,
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A little linguistic they/them humor.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Party Game https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/party-game

Cartoon of man lecturing. ENGLISH SPEAKERS LACK A PRONOUN FOR THE SECOND PERSON PLURAL, THEY THEREFORE CANNCA CONCEIVE OF SPEAKING TO MORE THAN ONE PERSON THIS EXPLAINS THE EXTREME INDIVIDUALISM OF ANGLOPHONE CULTURE. IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT THE USE OF "THOU FOR SINGULAR AND "YOU" FOR PLURAL FELL OUT OF FASHION PRECISELY ONE GENERATION AFTER THE PUBLISHING OF ADAM SMITH'S "WEALTH OF NATIONS." Caption: Party Game: Applying the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to any linguistic quirk
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