8 Sep
2023
8 Sep
'23
6:06 a.m.
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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