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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