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What do you mean they?

He clearly says he’s a singular person

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They is, and has been for a very long time, perfectly valid for singular use.

Most people I’ve encounted do it all the time without noticing between sentences.

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It’s extremely confusing. Its a he, no doubt

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Where you you see a gender qualifier in the post? If you don’t know you don’t assume because you turn into a donkey or something like that.

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A gender what?

How is there a doubt that it’s a he.

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I doubt. What tells you it’s a he… that’s what I’m asking you to do. Show me, prove me it’s a he.

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In english, they stands for both plural and gender-neural (when you don’t know whether the person you’re referring to is male or female).

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There no doubt that it’s a male speaking

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You do you

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what? where? look at the username, that’s clearly anonymous, the hacker group.

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You mean the hacker known as four chen

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They has been used to refer to an unspecified individual since before you were born.

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What you mean unspecified?

It says right there

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That’s not really the point.

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There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me

As if I were their well-acquainted friend

A comedy of errors, act IV, scene 3

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