One of my biggest pet peeves is blatant bad grammar. Sure, there are going to be times when we get foiled by auto-correct or have a typo in our writings. There may even be an occasional missed spell/grammar checking, but blatant bad grammar gets on my nerves.
Let's talk Facebook...
When someone updates his/her profile picture I see "John changed his profile picture" or "Sally changed her profile picture". That is, of course, if he/she has supplied the relevant gender information to his/her profile page. If not, I see "Pat changed their profile picture".
Seriously. Since Facebook doesn't know if Pat is a guy or girl it makes him/her plural. Pat is now a group.
I guess it was too difficult to program in a different variation such as "Pat's profile picture changed".
Ridiculous.
Thoughts?
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