4/30/2023 0 Comments What does she her hers meanThey speak English (a second language) with the accent of the person from whom they learned. When I went to Portugal, I realized it’s the same there. That’s what they learned when they learned to talk. Living in Tennessee, I was called “hon” by lot from people who spoke more slowly and often with a drawl. We may not think we have a Midwestern or a Wisconsin accent, but Charlie Berens of Manitowoc Minute fame begs to differ. Across America, we learn American English, but our accents give away our location. If the people who raised us used English properly, then we likely learned it that way, too. And that’s when we learn that we’ve learned by “sound,” correctly or incorrectly. It isn’t until elementary school that we start to learn the parts of speech and how they work together. No one teaches us grammar as an infant, toddler or preschooler. It’s just something you learned in school (and promptly forgot).īut it’s way back in early childhood that we learned how language sounded and what sounded “right.” Learning pronouns by listening If you’re not an editor, an English major or some other sort of word nerd, you probably don’t know or don’t care about pronouns. It’s the grammar part that brings me up short. It’s becoming almost second nature with a few people I know who’ve chosen the plural “they/their” to better reflect their identity. Each time I hear “they/their” used for one person, I mentally cringe. Displaying personal pronouns, like she/her/hers, is gaining popularity.Īs a former journalist, wrapping my head around plural pronouns for singular entities is a challenge. It’s just a simple line at the bottom of an email signature, but it lets me know what to say.
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