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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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What part of "formal language" did you not understand :P
I think it's changed now but I think this is exactly it: for a long time, singular they has been held to be informal. It doesn't matter how people normally talk, because rules of formality are not about that.
English lessons (or any lesson teaching you about your native language) are often expressly about teaching you a formal, standardised version of the language. Sometimes that's for reasons of control and the imposition of a hierarchy, but there's a practical element to it, as well. If you're somewhere where different registers of a language are spoken, being able to write and speak the formal register (or the "prestige dialect") unlocks opportunities and jobs.
Understanding of linguistic subtleties like "formal register" and "prestige dialect" is often lacking though so teachers often say that informal or regional dialect versions are wrong rather than merely not the preferred dialect you are learning in these lessons. I suppose there's an argument that, in context, those two things are synonyms.