I like to think of it as home...
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I wondered the same thing. A quick Google search returns articles that refer to Afrika as 'she'.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?
Xakrij wrote: Wed 20 Dec 2023, 5:30 pmI wondered the same thing. A quick Google search returns articles that refer to Afrika as 'she'.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?
It is indeed a gender-non-specificity conundrum
True, it's just there was even more ambiguity as ''them'' could have also meant the band in your original post!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.