On the Ted radio hour, linguist Ann Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person.
I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me, but it can't be singular.
And I will say, but it is the history behind words causing a lot of debate.
That's on the Ted radio hour from NPR.
This is FRESH AIR.
I'm Tanya Mosley.
No doubt at least one of these hashtags is familiar to you.
Me too.
Black lives matter.
Oscar.
So white black girl magic.
I can't breathe.
All of them took hold on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
And to put a finer point on it, black Twitter.
Now, what exactly is black Twitter?
There was a tweet at one point where they were like, where is black Twitter?
Like, is it like, they thought it was like a secret URL.
We had different logins and like, or is it a location?
Is it black dot twitter.com?
Like, is there a special tweet I.