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GEICO, the second-largest vehicle insurance underwriter in the US, has decided it will no longer cover Tesla Cybertrucks. The company is terminating current Cybertruck policies and says the truck “doesn’t meet our underwriting guidelines.”

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (21 children)

True, but this isn't prose or high literature. What reason do you suggest why "his or her" would be preferable to "their" in this context?

The prescriptivist "It's grammatically incorrect" argument doesn't hold much water when it has been used since middle English.

In a poem, I can see the thought:
"I tried to fit the cadence of this clause
Within the measure of this poem's form
Which has in past and present be the norm
By which this poem, too, seeks to adhere.
This is my authorial choice's cause
for my decision not to use a "their"." But if to find an alternate way to word
Your writing's pronouns strikes you as absurd
I nonetheless opine that you still ought
To make the token effort to include
With "their" all people by the same respect
That you for yourself would from them expect.
Refusing this, I feel, would be quite rude.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Then the original comment would read

hose hings are very poorly made and all he most imporan pars are made of cheap plasic ha an average person can lierally rip off wih his or her bare hands

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

That sounds more like someone that would deffend the cyber truck I suppose.

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