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Legend refuses to let the man dictate what 'grammar' and what 'the correct word' is dictate their writing (lemmy.world)
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Also, please be civil this person was actually pretty chill about getting totally destroyed for this crazy take. I mostly just wanted to document this moment.

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[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

English needs a gender neutral singular pronoun other than they.

I vote for "e, em, ey, eir"

"Have you called Jace?"

"No, never spoken to em. What's eir phone number?"

Because Jace is a gender neutral name, and the second speaker doesn't know eir gender, a singular neutral pronoun is perfect. Rather than using the funky plural pronoun that already has a use for groups.

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