May I ask why it's irritated you? It seemed convoluted is all. Disrupted the flow of conversation and 'jolted' me out of what someone was saying by the inconguity. I found I was thinking more about their deliberate use of the 'incorrect' pronoun than what they were actually saying.
and whether your irritation depends at all on the gender of the speaker? Not as far as I recall, no. It's annoyed me in printed works too - examples that deliberately use 'she', for example, seem to be labouring a point.
That's not to say the point isn't a valid one, I'm just callin' it like I see it, obviously.
I like the line from Real Genius - "I heard there was going to be someone new this term, are you it?"
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Date: 2006-02-16 08:44 pm (UTC)It seemed convoluted is all. Disrupted the flow of conversation and 'jolted' me out of what someone was saying by the inconguity. I found I was thinking more about their deliberate use of the 'incorrect' pronoun than what they were actually saying.
and whether your irritation depends at all on the gender of the speaker?
Not as far as I recall, no. It's annoyed me in printed works too - examples that deliberately use 'she', for example, seem to be labouring a point.
That's not to say the point isn't a valid one, I'm just callin' it like I see it, obviously.
I like the line from Real Genius -
"I heard there was going to be someone new this term, are you it?"