A masters in not the sole criteria for being a fucker. For instance, many cinephiles, chess players and philosophers are also fuckers. Think of the person at the bar, the english person who does not speak spanish, who pronounces Nicaragua, Knee-hah-rah-ha. This person is also a fucker.

See?

Proper English is the sort of thing that the British Empire would go to war over, ( The Falkland Islands was all about Proper English) and grammar is simply a way for people who don’t play sports to pass the time. It is the refuge of the Internet Troll, a secret 12-sided die or a concert t-shirt signed by Sting.

Your alternative ‘he/she’ would be the singular expression to use instead of ‘they’, while ‘him/her’ would be used as a singular expression of ‘them’.

Of course he already opined that such corrections were anathematic to him; I don’t know what you wanted to bring that subject on up for.

Ha! I went to school with a girl who spent an entire summer cycling around town wearing a cloche hat with a copy of Ulysses prominently displayed in the wicker basket of her bicycle. I am sure the spine was never cracked on that book.

“This flimsy credential will give the holder an inappropriate amount of external confidence and entitlement but actually fill them with a crippling sense of insufficiency and self-loathing because they failed to advance any further in the world of academia.”

The writer started using the singular person “the holder” and finished with the plural “them” instead of “he/she”. This, as we all know, may be acceptable in lesser academic circles, but is simply not Proper English.

Glad to be of help.

I thank you for your question, and will most definitely answer it with great bitterness.