On September 8, 2023 1:06:33 AM CDT, "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users" <users@trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
Anno domini 2023 Thu, 7 Sep 17:04:43 -0700
 Mike Bird via tde-users scripsit:
On Thu September 7 2023 16:12:18 William Morder via tde-users wrote:
[...]
"They" is polite and perfectly acceptable when gender is unknown or
irrelevant or many-valued (as in "For each person on the list please
ask them if they remembered to bring their passport" where them/their
is singular gender neutral).  Pronouns are like variable declarations
where sometimes you need variant types.

I thought it was "thou" / "thee" / "thy" / "thine" but not "they" ... well, you never know, and time flows ...


Nik




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Actually it was once something akin to "hie" or "hem" (from Middle English hei and hem) and the latter still survives as a contraction in phrases like "Catch 'em all" but I digress. :-)