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Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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« on: April 06, 2014, 07:17:30 PM »

Wait, why did they say "Latin@"? What does that even mean?

@ has elements of both an 'a' and an 'o' in the way it looks so it's intended to be a (sadly unpronounceable) gender-neutral shorthand for situations where for whatever reason people don't want to use the word 'Hispanic'. I'm seeing it more and more often these days.
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« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2014, 10:33:13 AM »

It annoys me too. These people are allegedly educated, and yet their grasp of language and its use is execrable. Most of them probably couldn't even identify the origin of that word.

Let's talk about the use of "they" as a singular pronoun... that's a permutation I don't mind.

Good. It's actually been in occasional use for a really long time, and it's better--more immediately understandable and more euphonic--than pretty much any possible alternative. It sometimes makes subject-verb agreement a little tricky but that's really a small price to pay.
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