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TEACHER: Today you'll give an example of a pronoun each and form a sentence with it.
JOHN: HER

TEACHER: Ok, your sentence?

JOHN: Give her her book. It's hers.

TEACHER: That's good. Yes who's next?


DAVE: HIM

TEACHER: Your Sentence?

DAVE: Give him him book. It's hims.

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A surprising amount of hippy/middle class parents who want to virtue signal are naming their kids gender neutral names or names such as Sam, so their child can choose to have it short for Samantha if they choose to identify the other way.

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That may be an assumption on your part…

Top 30 girls’ names

Top 30 boys names

https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/07/these...e-uk-16957583/

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Yes, looks like we may have a case of ipsedixitism. ;)

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.. or a case of simply reading somethign that wasnt said. ;)
All he said was "a surprising amount" not the Top 30/50/100.

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I'm pretty biased here as I'm a proud Ally but pronouns don't really harm anyone.

It doesn't hurt you or affect your life in any way if someone wants to be referred to as "them" or by a pronoun which is different to what you'd immediately assume.

You may make a few errors the first few times you get used to it but just try your best to get it right.

I have a friend who for over 30 years was called Darren but now wants to be called Danielle. I occasionally get it wrong as Darren was the name I used for 3 decades but she understands that and I get it right far more often than wrong.

Just be kind.

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Agreed! Let's be kind.:clap::clap::clap:

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That’s the challenge with "woolly" generalisms - to me, a "surprising amount" would mean a substantial impression in the top 30/50/100 names; to others, it means one of their friends/family called their child Sam (and that interpretation could be subject to confirmation bias, as I know quite a few Kims, Cameron’s, & Morgan’s, but they are friends of my children, who are in their 30s, so the proposition is unlikely to be true for them…).

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Not if you understand why….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...me-in-britain/

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I think '#bekind' would a nice heading on Cable Forum. Maybe in a nice pink ;)

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Exactly.

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As long as the surname isn’t Atta it should be fine.

While I’m here I might as well say hello to all the large and small c conservatives for whom this has become their (plural, I wouldn’t want to assume) safe haven. I’m missing you in all the other threads.

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it won't be Smith :)

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How does a list of the most popular names disprove my assertion that 'a surprising amount' of those people have chosen such names? I never said the majority of people.

625k people were born in the UK last year and a good majority of them will have a name not on that list.

Your post makes no sense in relation to what I said in the way of proving or disproving anything.

# 11. Charlie, is one of those such names being used btw. Im not sure if its supposed to be the same for both sex's or short for Charlize or something.

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There is a special place in hell for some people ;)