Thursday, April 21, 2016

Editorial Report A

        The end is near.

Selection From Rough Cut
     The above interaction probably would not draw attention as being out of the ordinary in an everyday conversation. However, some people seem to think that using they as a singular pronoun is incorrect, and should not be used when referring to a person one knows. Much of this argument is rising from the surge of visibility for trans, genderqueer, and nonbinary individuals; who may not particularly like being addressed by a gendered pronoun such as he or she. The English language has no real neutral pronoun that some other languages have, like the use of "hen" in Sweden and Norway (Vindenes). So it was proposed that the pronoun "they", which is already used in daily speech to address a person of some unspecified gender, should fill this role. And yet, while generally accepted, there are still those who want to argue that it shouldn’t be used, or that we don’t even need such pronouns. My argument is that "they" should become the prescribed gender neutral pronoun used in English, and that whatever pronouns a person would like to be addressed with should be accepted and used.

Re-Edited Selection
   The above interaction probably would not draw attention as being out of the ordinary in an everyday conversation. Despite this many believe that using “they” as a singular pronoun is incorrect, and should not be used when referring to someone one knows personally. Much of this argument is rising from the surge of visibility for trans, genderqueer, and nonbinary individuals in the LGBT+ community and in the world as whole; who may not particularly like being addressed by a gendered pronoun such as “he” or “she”. The English language has no real neutral pronoun that some other languages have, like the use of "hen" in Swedish and Norwegian (Vindenes). So it was unofficially proposed that the pronoun "they", which is already used in daily speech to address a person of some unspecified gender, should fill this role in English. And yet, while generally accepted, there are still those who want to argue that it shouldn’t be used, or that we don’t even need such pronouns. My argument is that "they" should become the prescribed singular gender neutral pronoun used in English, and that whatever pronouns a person would like to be addressed with should be accepted and used.

Content Change
       The content that this went through, was a little more inclusion on who this subject effects, like yes specificaly the queer community but also the rest of people too. Also I made sure to not make it sound like there was an official proposal on the use of "they" but more of a, everyone started using it thing

Form Change
          There wasn't really any form change, still and essay and all.

1 comment:

  1. First off, just by this section alone I can tell that your essay will be very interesting. I think you definitely did yourself a lot of favors by revising the way you did, it read so much better. I hope you have some sources for this section, I think that will solidify your argument and give a lot of credibility to you. Nevertheless you might not want to put sources in this paragraph, maybe you use those later on. Either way, without much context outside of this paragraph I think that you have a really interesting point contrasting different languages and the use of pronouns in those different languages. I think that would be a good point to expand upon. Great job and I think this will be a great paper!

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