Thread: Pronouns
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Old 07-09-2022, 14:24   #251
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Re: Pronouns
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
Which is clumsy and grammatically sub-optimal.

The efficient and perfectly acceptable way to refer to someone of unknown sex is, and always has been, “they”. You do your arguments no favours at all with your obsessive resistance to this one very minor thing.
Yes, but it grates because it is ungrammatical.

However, that’s what I do to keep the peace.
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