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Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

  • Makeshift@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Thank you.

    It’s not people using the neutral that bothers me, it’s the fact that the neutral is both singular and plural while the non neutrals are only singular/plural.

    and the plural part also alters the entire sentence structure to plural.

    “He is over there” - Singular and easy to understand

    “They is over there” - Just sounds wrong.

    “They are over there” - Both singular and plural. Is it a person of unspecified nature or multiple people of mixed ones?

    English could use a popularization of a strictly singular neutral that doesn’t carry implications of being an object rather than a being (“It is over there”)