Westley Martínez wrote:
I believe singular they should not be used in formal writing. So what if you use it in an email?
If you, personally, dislike it, then don't use it. But if you (generic you) say that it is grammatically incorrect to do so, then you are simply *wrong*. Some things are a matter of taste and individual opinion, but the validity of singular-they is not one of them.
And if you (generic you) insist that a grammatical feature which goes back to Chaucer in written English, most likely a thousand years in spoken English, and that is used by the King James Bible, is politically correct zealotry created by feminists, well, that's just laughable.
This is off-topic and we've put enough noise on the dev list about this. If anyone wishes to continue a serious, good-faith discussion, I'm happy to talk off-list.
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