I have a very important question. There are only three of us in our house: me, my wife, and our indoor, shorthair cat. The doors and windows are always closed. I vacuum the joint every week. Even so, I vacuum up a surprising amount of material every time through. Where on earth does all of that stuff come from?
One of you is a hairy guy in a dress.
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/pours one out for Bugs Bunny, the OG hairy guy in a dress
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Biggioās invisible mouse?
I guarantee you use ātheyā and āthemā to refer to an individual person multiple times a day without realizing it.
I have cargo shorts with a specific pocket for a cell phone. I never wear them with button-up collared shirts, though.
Sure, but there are reasons that we distinguish between singular and plural. Making that distinction harder to ascertain seems like an unnecessary bullet to the foot. Couldnāt we just cook up a new, non-gender-specific word for the singular case?
Yāall.
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I used to work on my own cars, but have you opened the hood on one lately? Nothing is recognizable as a particular engine part. Itās quite possibly been over 20 years since I popped the hood on a car I was buying, before buying it.
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I think in most cases you can swap in āoneā for he/she/they/them. It is already part of the language, although you might end up sounding like King Charles.
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When I was a kid I sort of inherited my dadās motherās 1967 Chevrolet Bel Air. I am no oneās idea of a mechanical genius, but when something went wrong, I was invariably able to open the hood, identify what I was looking at, diagnose the problem, go down to Hi-Lo Auto Parts, get what I needed, come back and fix it. Me. I could do that. Now, the car that I currently drive, it once had an issue starting and it literally took me at least half an hour of looking around under the hood for me to figure out that for who knows what reason they put the goddamn battery in the trunk.
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Oh, I should say that when I wasnāt paying attention my mom sold that car for $100. I see now that a nice enough version of that same car will fetch north of $30,000.
All Yall
Oh that kills meā¦67 Caddilac, 57 Ford Pickup, nahā¦theyāve been sold.
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Everything is electronic now. There are some advantages but the disadvantage of it is being forced to take your car into a dealer/mechanic to get it worked on. Gone are the days of changing and adjusting the dwell points and replacing a water pump under the shade tree.
Harlan Crow put money directly into Clarence Thomasā pocketā¦and fixed up his Momās house.
I work on all of my cars, including the wifeās and all the driving kids. I have to admit, itās nice to hop in my new EV and hear it whirr to life knowing the only thing Iāll ever have to do to it is swap the summer and winter tires each Spring and Fall. Even the brake pads have a service life of 100K miles and the rotors are good for the life of the car.
They tried it. Ze/Zim (or, alternately, Xe/Xem). Thereās been sporadic and uneven uptake in the community as the ācommunityā can be a bit amorphous. Hereās a decent primer:
A couple things:
1). If a hairy guy doesnāt like wearing dresses, then he shouldnāt.
2). The solution to the open-toed shoe panty hose: Berkshire Ultra Sheer Control Top Pantyhose Without Toes 5115
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When I first saw that 5115 model number, I thought it as s $115 price tag, which gave me pause.