[ExI] Sheer Idiocy

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Wed May 3 22:01:17 UTC 2023


On Wed, May 3, 2023, 2:49 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Someone somewhere reminded us that Shakespeare (who never spelled his name
> that way) used 'they'as singular.
>
> Curious tie-in - research in the mountains of TEnnessee revealed that
> language of S's day was alive and well there, primarily among Blacks.
>
> So 'they is', while sounding Black, is really Shakespearean.   bill w
>

It do be like that

>
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