... Because I hate feeling slimy every time I informally use 'them' or 'they' as a substitute, but I point-blank refuse to type 's/he' or 'him/her' every goddamn time I want to write something general (not least because it actually makes things more strenuous to read than the grammatically incorrect alternative). Admittedly, I make little effort to make my posts here readable anyway (simplifying one word into eight smaller ones is time consuming and inefficient; I am lazy and like succinctness), mais hey.
(You now also have an explanation for my monstrous sentences. I know they often have to be waded through. They're generally stream-of-consciousness things, and I'm then too lazy to go back and make them easy to read. This is, in some ways beneficial- people who lack a drive for understanding see long words, blink, and don't post. OTOH, there's also a mindset of, 'Well, I dunno wut's goin' on an' I cba to try an' work it out so I'll just guess at randum an' post sumthin' dumb but LOVABLE, amirite? :D'.)
~ ways, beneficial
my zombie plans: Escape Earth, terraform Mars, live peacefully without fear of zombies.
oops wrong thread...
@6- Oh, no matter; the irony there was delicious. I actually laughed out loud.
@Marth- Hm, "thon" has a nice ring to it, especially in place of "him/her". Would the possessive be "thon's"?
Well now, that's just silly. Then again, I suppose that silliness itself makes the possessive 'thons' more authentically English. Vaguely related: