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Message: Re: he/she -> they

Changed By: arisoft
Change Date: December 23, 2017 12:20AM

Re: he/she -> they
According to Wikipedia this is not so obvious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They

[quote]It can also be used as a gender neutral third person singular pronoun. This idiomatic use avoids formalising the vagueness or unknown fact by not using the formal phrase, "he/she." For example, formally "he or she drove over the body and disappeared," informally "they (singular) drove over the body and disappeared."[/quote]

The referred article https://www.webcitation.org/mainframe.php 68ylntP85?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26FOB-onlanguage-t.html?_r=1 is also quite interesting to read. :)

Original Message

Author: arisoft
Date: December 23, 2017 12:18AM

Re: he/she -> they
According to Wikipedia this is not so obvious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They

[quote]It can also be used as a gender neutral third person singular pronoun. This idiomatic use avoids formalising the vagueness or unknown fact by not using the formal phrase, "he/she." For example, formally "he or she drove over the body and disappeared," informally "they (singular) drove over the body and disappeared."[/quote]

The referred article https://www.webcitation.org/mainframe.php is also quite interesting to read. :)