On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 15:19:40 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 15:02:35 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
"Hey, you see that person over there? What are they doing? Is
that their big red stuffed dinosaur?"
"A person came in to the shop today and the entire time they
just keept asking for corks, we sell paint..."
"I am going to wear this big pink sombrero and if anyone has a
problem with it, well they can just suckit"
Just as a few examples of gender neutral singular they/their.
But I am thinking more of the origin, that plural form perhaps
signifies distance?
Is the following wrong? (I wouldn't know, but it looks wrong to
me.)
"My friend came in to the shop today and the entire time they
just kept asking for corks..."
For me that sounds 100% fine...
