Eyeglass Strap
August 15, 2019
Have you ever seen anyone under age sixty with a pair of eyeglasses hanging from a strap around their neck? Well, maybe on water skis or riding a buckin’ bronco. But to most of us, eyeglass straps bring white-haired grandmothers in rocking chairs to mind.
Those of us who take our prescription sunglasses off whenever we go into a store and frequently have to run back to ask at the cash register if anyone has found them, eventually figure out that replacing glasses is expensive. There comes a time when you should pay $2.00 plus tax for a plain strap with a loop at each end to fit over the earpieces regardless of the optics.
And I have done so. One less thing to worry about.
Grammar check:
"Have you ever seen anyone under age sixty with a pair of eyeglasses hanging from a strap around their neck?"
Should be HER neck
Posted by: Paul Moloff | August 15, 2019 at 05:40 AM
Thank you for your comment. To me, the correct sentence would be replacing "their" with "his or her", but that's just not what people do now-a-days.
And here's a quote from Steven Pinker on the subject.
"Further, Steven Pinker argues that “everyone and they are not an ‘antecedent’ and a ‘pronoun’ referring to the same person”, but rather that “they are a ‘quantifier’ and a ‘bound variable,’ a different logical relationship.” He says that “Everyone returned to their seats means “For all X, X returned to X’s seat.” In other words, there are logical objections to the logical objections to singular they."
Posted by: judy kugel | August 15, 2019 at 03:36 PM