LogFAQs > #952793454

I've never particularly liked "they" as a gender-neutral singular pronoun even before encountering people who prefer it as a means of being identified, due to the quantitative ambiguity it introduces, but until English gets its act together and comes up with a better one that people don't ruin by attaching dehumanizing connotations to it ("it"), it's the best we've got. I see no reason not to respect people who prefer it.

Lokarin posted...

To solve all problems... just say "thou"

Doesn't really solve the issue of third-person pronouns. Second-person ones are fine: "you" is already gender-neutral, and while it's also quantitatively ambiguous, context usually indicates when it's supposed to be plural ("thou" used to be the singular version, but fell out of use because it wasn't really necessary), and when it doesn't, it's very easy to append something like "all" or a gesture to remove any confusion.

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