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Re: Afrika Green

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Sandy Shaw wrote: Wed 20 Dec 2023, 3:15 pm I had been reading ''them'' to mean others around Afrika, but does it in this case mean embarrassing for Afrika themselves?
I wondered the same thing. A quick Google search returns articles that refer to Afrika as 'she'.
It is indeed a gender-non-specificity conundrum
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Re: Afrika Green

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Xakrij wrote: Wed 20 Dec 2023, 5:30 pm
Sandy Shaw wrote: Wed 20 Dec 2023, 3:15 pm I had been reading ''them'' to mean others around Afrika, but does it in this case mean embarrassing for Afrika themselves?
I wondered the same thing. A quick Google search returns articles that refer to Afrika as 'she'.
It is indeed a gender-non-specificity conundrum
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Is this true? Nothing wrong about that but I'm curious.

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#18 Post by telys »

I've always seen Afrika Green as a nom de guerre á la Blue Weaver.
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Am I right to understand 'they' as 'he+she' in a person who doesn't identify as either or as both?
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#20 Post by Spittingcat »

‘They’ and ‘them’ can be used to refer to anyone.

“They were out jogging in the park.”

“It didn’t occur to them at all.”

Doesn’t need to be multiple people, doesn’t need to be someone who’s gender neutral.

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#21 Post by Sandy Shaw »

Spittingcat wrote: Thu 21 Dec 2023, 6:23 pm ‘They’ and ‘them’ can be used to refer to anyone.

“They were out jogging in the park.”

“It didn’t occur to them at all.”

Doesn’t need to be multiple people, doesn’t need to be someone who’s gender neutral.
True, it's just there was even more ambiguity as ''them'' could have also meant the band in your original post!
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