RantWoman is taking time from her busy schedule of generating well-crafted essays on the problems of ...
Scratch that. RantWoman is simply meditating upon two threads from her Twitter presence in the last couple days.
They all?
What to do in English when one wants to make clear that "They" does in fact refer to a plural number and not just an individual, RantWoman's term, rejecting the whole gender binary thing. RantWoman herself uses they as non-gender specific and lets they be either singular or plural. RantWoman has an inner catch about this: RantDad was the family grammarian and he would probably be spinning in his grave about modern "they" usage.
Thanks to Johnny Cash, though RantWoman has an inspiration. Go back a few centuries and go for Thou, Thee, Thy. RantWoman is only going to toss out the idea unencumbered by more than glancing acquaintance with precise knowledge about the history and shifts of this usage. Worth considering for today? Ummm....
In the meantime, it's Christmas in August. Rather than again manifest RantWoman's complete inability especially on her blog to go anywhere in a straight line, enjoy the tune, meditate on the title and clear indication, the word :"children" that plural is meant. Then come back for another round wherein RantWoman may further try to unravel the allusions in the song.
And for our next Arts themed bakeoff, it's the annual Who has the coolest Parliament building? Parliaments World Cup contest.
RantWoman had to go out Wikipedia-ing on a big screen to form opinions about the named contestants in this semifinal round.
The verdict:
Brazil wins on serious modernist design elements, slightly edging out Kuwait
Kuwait definitely has the more interesting Wikipedia entry.
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| Kuwait National Parliament Building |
Hungary and Mexico tie for third place on both design and documentation grounds.
Look them up your own selves.
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