Posted: Sep 24, 2019 5:31 am
I'm With Stupid wrote:The_Piper wrote:Shapiro says "never in human history, a plural noun, used as a singular noun". They may be used as both plural and singular, and apparently it's been that way since the middle ages. Shapiro was wrong.
That's what he says when it's edited to cut him off before he's finished his sentence, I'll give you that. The rest of the sentence is, "to refer to a singular gender."
He doesn't stop there though. After "to refer to a singular gender" he apparently says "wouldn't use a plural noun." He does seem to be making the "they is only plural" point that Seder takes him to task for.