The Problem I had a thought a while ago about the issue in English that gender-neutral singular pronouns (they/them/their) are the same as plural pronouns (they/them/their). This renders sentences like, “They are by the pool,” ambiguous. Are we talking about one person or multiple? There is just no way to know outside of context. Even then, our information can be insufficient to resolve the ambiguity. A Solution An idea I had to resolve this ambiguity would be simply use the singular conjugation of the verb when we’re referring to a singular gender-neutral person and to use the plural conjugation when…
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