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As we were walking home from school:
Evangeline: Billy in my class thought I was going to be picked up by my dad, and I said no, I know you're not my dad because my dad... it's a boy, not a girl!
Me: HE's a boy, honey.
Evangeline: Who's a boy?
Me: Your fa- I mean, you should say he's a boy, not it's a boy, we don't usually say "it" when talking about people.
Evangeline: No, if I said he's a boy they'd know he's a he. So I have to say it's a boy.
Can't argue with that logic, I suppose!
Evangeline: Billy in my class thought I was going to be picked up by my dad, and I said no, I know you're not my dad because my dad... it's a boy, not a girl!
Me: HE's a boy, honey.
Evangeline: Who's a boy?
Me: Your fa- I mean, you should say he's a boy, not it's a boy, we don't usually say "it" when talking about people.
Evangeline: No, if I said he's a boy they'd know he's a he. So I have to say it's a boy.
Can't argue with that logic, I suppose!
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Date: 2010-02-07 06:21 am (UTC)And we do say "it's a boy" when announcing the gender of a baby. Or pets. I don't consider animals "things" either.
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Date: 2010-02-07 06:27 am (UTC)Yeah, I realized that halfway through my sentence and hoped Evangeline wouldn't point it out.
We really need a proper non-gender singular pronoun for people.
Well, there *is* singular they, but that only works sometimes. (I grind my teeth when it's done badly. "A parent wants what's best for their child." Why not just say that parents want what's best and be done with it?)
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Date: 2010-02-07 11:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-07 03:15 pm (UTC)