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Using a 3rd person possessive pronoun like this isn't unusual or "promoting woke", it's English.
by frosting1337 1y ago
Using a 3rd person possessive pronoun like this isn't unusual or "promoting woke", it's English.
- hintymad 1y agoThanks. I rarely saw this usage before, hence the question
- nhaines 1y agoIt's been standard conversational English since the 1300s.
- hintymad 1y agoThanks. Somehow when I was learning English, the instruction was to use she/her to refer to an unknown third person, so did I when writing essays in a college here. That's why it felt strange when I saw they/their for 3rd person.
- eadmund 1y agoNo, it was not standard conversational English to use the third person plural to refer to a known individual man or woman. It has been used to refer to a non-specific person.
- ragall 1y agoFar from "standard", more like occasionally used.
- xaoz 1y agoIt's more common in less personal, more formal contexts. Another place you might see this in addition to hiring notes is police reports. It's fine English in any context though, just convention driven.