• hglman@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Unless the people in innane sentence are the same gender and it’s back to the same issue. You exists and it’s not an issue for anyone.

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      6 months ago

      Even then, whether “them” references a group or an individual is left unclear–as I noted. E.g., “you” vs “y’all.” Exclusively using they/them is mildly less precise, but people acting like it’s the end of the English language is silly.

      As I also explicitly stated, acting like it’s not slightly imprecise is facile. It could be worse, at least English doesn’t have gendered nouns like Spanish, Italian, etc. 😁