they
Original: they on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (with dark hair, red shirt): I don't see what the big deal is on using 'they' as a singular pronoun.
Panel 2:
Woman (with glasses, yellow shirt): Language changes. Even pronouns have changed drastically in the last several centuries.
Panel 3:
Man: Shakespeare used the singular they! Chaucer did too!
Panel 4:
Woman: Yeah, I guess the data is pretty clear on that.
Panel 5:
Man (leaning in, grinning): It's 'the data ARE,' you GARBAGE.
Votey:
Woman (turning and gesturing away as the man recoils): Jeez, calm down. What a nookular response!
Man (with dark hair, red shirt): I don't see what the big deal is on using 'they' as a singular pronoun.
Panel 2:
Woman (with glasses, yellow shirt): Language changes. Even pronouns have changed drastically in the last several centuries.
Panel 3:
Man: Shakespeare used the singular they! Chaucer did too!
Panel 4:
Woman: Yeah, I guess the data is pretty clear on that.
Panel 5:
Man (leaning in, grinning): It's 'the data ARE,' you GARBAGE.
Votey:
Woman (turning and gesturing away as the man recoils): Jeez, calm down. What a nookular response!
Alt text
A five-panel comic. A man and a woman discuss language. The man says he doesn't see the big deal about using 'they' as a singular pronoun. The woman, wearing glasses, replies that language changes and even pronouns have shifted drastically over the centuries. The man notes that Shakespeare and Chaucer both used the singular 'they.' The woman concedes, 'Yeah, I guess the data is pretty clear on that.' In the final panel the man leans in with a smug grin and snaps, 'It's the data ARE, you GARBAGE,' triumphantly correcting her grammar (treating 'data' as plural). Votey: the woman turns and walks off, dismissively waving him away as she says, 'Jeez, calm down. What a nookular response!'—mocking him by deliberately mispronouncing 'nuclear.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.