• KairuByteM
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    Complains about nonsense English, provides perfectly normal English sentence as an example. 🤔

    • Sawzall
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      Not I were talking about one person

      • TheFinn
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        Do you not read much or something? I’ve been using both singular and plural “they” my whole life.

      • KairuByteM
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        I’m well aware, it’s still a perfectly normal English sentence. “They” has been used as a singular for decades, and the recent acceptance of it in formal writing has no bearing on if it is a proper English sentence.

        It would have been a proper sentence even 30 years ago.

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          Centuries, not decades. It predates Shakespeare.

          • KairuByteM
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            I didn’t know the proper scope so erred on the side of caution. 😜