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    6 months ago

    Yep, sorry. Still training my 20th century mindset for the 21st century. Teaching old dogs new tricks and all that, but I’m trying.

    I hate using ‘they’ though, because it always signals “more than one” to me, plural, when I’m talking about a specific singular person.

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        6 months ago

        “They” has always been an indirect pronoun.

        Not really in daily usage though. It’s a recent thing.

        I’m aware of the few historical cases when it was used in a plural sense. But most usage of it in modern times is singular. We’re now making a concerted effort today to start using it as a plural, since gender fluidity is a public thing now. But there’s generations that have used it as a singular, and it takes time to get used to that.

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