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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    6 months ago

    Top tip: Avoid having to distinguish between there, their and they’re, buy simply using the gender neutral thair.

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      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.