backhanded sentiments

Pronoun
pro.noun (prō'noun')-
The part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things asked for, previously specified, or understood from the context.

pronouns are great aren't they, you can use them every day and I know most of you probably do. Rather than using someones name when writing something negative about them, try a pronoun. Its easy here let me show you.

What you want to say but are afraid that the subject of your rant may read it and become upset:

"I hate Jeremiah, he's so full of himself, what a fuck head!"

How using pronouns keeps everyone guessing as to who you are talking about leaving you as free as you like to bash whomever you like:

"I hate him, he's so full of himself, what a fuck head."

Here's another example:
I don't know who RayRay is anymore, ever since he met Connie he has been ignoring me.

And our new non offensive version:
I don't know who he is anymore, ever since he met her he has been ignoring me




See, when you use pronouns you are free to write whatever you want, everyone will be so stupefied by your grammatical skills they won't be the least bit offended, upset, hurt etc by what you wrote.

There are many many many more ways to use pronouns, and you guessed it, most of them can be used one way or another to bash people without them knowing you are talking about them. Go on check it out.

http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/pronouns.html