On 6/13/2015 3:32 AM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
"My friend came in to the shop today and the entire time they just
kept asking for corks..."
For me that sounds 100% fine...
Not to me. Gender-neutrality is for the cases when the gender is unknown
or the subject is generic, e.g. "A person". I would assume that you are
likely to know the gender of a friend, in which case 'they' makes no
sense here.
When I used to play Dark Age of Camelot, there was one line of text that
annoyed me to no end. Anytime someone summoned their horse, you would
see a message like this:
"Dougal mounts their horse."
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
